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Booklet, The School of Mines Ballarat: A Statement of the Objects and Present Resources of the School, 1873, 1873
... The Ballarat School of Mines was the first School of Mines in Australia and was established in 1870. ballarat school of mines assay courthouse joseph flude crucible furnace flude warrington rogers brough smyth harrie wood wood james bickett bickett redmond barry somerville learmonth metallurgy chemistry laboratory examinations mining engineer assayer inorganic chemistry underground managers captains of shift engieners enginedrivers louis balhausen james campbell l.s. christie j.j. casey alexander dempster g. higinbotham james martin alexander millan malcolm morrison band of hope and albion city of ballarat mining company city of canterbury gold mining company egerton mining company el dorado gold mining company golden reef gold mining company happy valley company hope quartz mining company long tunnel gold mining company walhalla hopewell quartz mining company imperial quartz mining company student numbers fees magdala quartz mining company stawell mariners and sloane's quartz mining company new north clunes company park company temperence quartz company tookey quartz company new zealand walhalla gold mining company matthew seal harrie woodmuseum duke of cornwall claim john lynch robert m. sergeant engineers f.w. niven william henry barnard ballarat school of mines museum museum ballarat school of mines library donations of specimens mining On front cover "Recorded in M-A"
"1873" 22 page booklet titles 'The Ballarat School of Mines: A Statement of the Objects and Resources of the School.' ...
The Ballarat School of Mines was the first School of Mines in Australia and was established in 1870. 22 page booklet titles 'The Ballarat School of Mines: A Statement of the Objects and Resources of the School.' The book has a number of illustrations including the interior of the Ballarat School of Mines Laboratory, and the former Ballarat Circuit Court House. It includes a statement of the formation, progress, and present position of the School of Mines, Ballaarat.
The image of the Ballarat School Mines Assay Room shows assay furnaces, crucibles, chimney, and teacher Joseph Flude on the far right. This room is now is a building known as the 'Old Chemistry Building'.
Plan and elevation of the new Metallurgical Laboratory and Proposed Chemical Laboratory is depicted.On front cover "Recorded in M-A"
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Federation University Historical Collection
Federation University Historical Collection
Federation University Historical Collection