Historical information
The Ballarat School of Mines had a 'Model Mine' that was used to teach students. Practical work was undertaken for a fee, supervised by laboratory superintendents. Copies of assays undertaken are compiled together in this book.
Physical description
Leatherbound ledger with transfer copies assay reports from the Ballarat School of Mines. Those seeking assaying work from the Ballarat School of Mines are listed in alphabetical order in the front of the ledger. The ledger contains 543 pages.
.2) Foolscap assay report on foolscap Ballarat School of Mines letterhead, and signed by Alfred Mica Smith, Superintendent of Laboratories. The report was on eight samples of Quartz submitted by R.C. Morgan, Scotts, Hotel, Melbourne
.3) Assay report on Ballarat School of Mines letterhead, dated 14 August 1985, and signed by Andrew Berry, Registrar. The assay was supervised by Professor Alfred Mica Smith, and undertaken for James Burke, Broken Hill, New South Wales.
.4) Assay report on Ballarat School of Mines letterhead, dated 18 August 1988, and signed by Alfred Mica Smith, Superintendent of Laboratories. The assay was undertaken on samples of Limonite submitted by James Burke and others, Broken Hill, New South Wales. The report includes information the the Ballarat School of Mines museum and the search for geological specimens from all Australian colonies for the collection.
.5) A 'rough' assay report on samples of stone submitted by H. Major Senr, Wilcannia, New South Wales.
5) A 'rough' assay report on sample quartz drillings from quartz reef submitted by H. Morris, Egerton, and an sample of quartz and pyrites for determination by Professor Krause submitted by R.M. Serjeant.
Subjects
- ballarat school of mines,
- a.c. allan,
- brittania g.m. co.,
- s. body,
- black horse company,
- john m. bickett,
- william bell,
- james barker,
- w. bliss,
- w. bailey,
- william barrou,
- w.h. batten,
- w. bechervaise,
- band and albion,
- budd bros,
- charles barker,
- i. cahir,
- a. chamber,
- w. cahill,
- james coglan,
- d. clarke,
- a.w. dobbie,
- john dosett,
- john dunstan,
- j.a. evans,
- l. eggleton,
- charles forbes,
- d. fitzpatrick,
- e. ford,
- michael goold,
- j. graham,
- john greenwood,
- james hayes,
- ed hardy,
- arthur harvey,
- george hodges,
- john hall,
- jubilee gold mining company,
- krause,
- luplau,
- lempiere,
- mt lyell co,
- john law,
- ed meadway,
- john murray,
- j.h. middleton,
- c.m. miles,
- m. muir,
- e. mcmillan,
- w. mcdougall,
- c. napier,
- w.r. nicholls,
- napier freehold,
- w.b, ochiltree,
- oakleigh gold mining company,
- dr pinnock,
- c. quin,
- james ross,
- c.b. retallack,
- e. rowlands,
- royal standard, linton,
- frank rabling,
- william russell,
- charles soloman,
- f. selby,
- w.j. scott,
- sulieman pasha co,
- south clunes united,
- h.w. sinclair,
- george selby,
- e.h. schroeder, horsham,
- e.w. spain,
- c.h. sheary,
- sir henry loch gold mining company,
- a. sutherland,
- saxon consols,
- j.b. triggs,
- h. townsend,
- harold turnley,
- c. taylor, melbourne,
- c. thorpe,
- a. vandenberg,
- charles walker,
- charles wilson,
- thomas wellington,
- a. wynne,
- r. warne,
- e. wattis,
- john wood,
- walter warner, armidale,
- c. winterbottom,
- w.l. willliams,
- j.c. young
