Historical information
The handbook was intended for those with little experience who wanted to prospect of fossick.
Physical description
Grey soft covered book of 90 pages. Includes fold out map of a portion of Victoria showing auriferous areas and mineral localities. Also show Counties of Victoria and localities of minerals such as tin, antimony, copper, silver lead, Malybdenite, tungsten ores, manganese, platinum, osmiridium and iron.
Chapter heading s include: working alluvial deposits, equipment, geology of Victoria, gold deposits, quartz reefs, indicators, economic minerals, assistance to prospectors, Miners' Right, mining bye-law, mining leases, forest regulations and glossary.
Descriptions are given of a god dish, puddling tub, cradle, puddling machine, ground sluicing, boring, windlass, whim, hand dollying, sweeping, California pump, and wing dam.
Subjects
- mining,
- baragwanath,
- gold,
- prospector,
- geology,
- quartz reefs,
- alluvial deposits,
- indicators,
- victorian goldfields,
- miners rights,
- mining leases,
- forest regulations,
- sluicing,
- sluice box,
- puddling machine,
- miner's cradle,
- whim,
- whip,
- california pump,
- gold nuggets,
- saddle reef,
- ballarat indicators,
- state batteries
