Historical information
The Ballarat School of Mines had a model mine used by students, and to conduct assays for a fee. The Register of Gold Entry Book had to be kept by the Licensed Gold Buyer or Assayer under the Gold Buyers Act.
Physical description
Brown half leather bound register registering receipt of gold. Columns include date, nature of transaction (eg assaying/purchase), age, where employed, business (eg mining, fossicking, assayer, etc), Abode, Signature, Witness, Claim, Mining Division, District, Where Obtained, Character of Gold (eg alluvial, smelted, quartz, etc), Weight, Value, How Gold Treated, To whom delivered after assay or smelting, Date of Assayer's Certificate.
Subjects
- ballarat school of mines,
- model mine,
- battery,
- assay,
- smelting,
- gold,
- robinson,
- frederick martell,
- r. callister,
- a. garrard,
- peter tong,
- lee sue,
- ah lung,
- chinese,
- f.w. calaby,
- ah kit,
- charlie ah lung,
- ah sung,
- ah chee,
- dep choon,
- charlie ah hing,
- frederick greaves,
- peter fong,
- george ah ki,
- ah hing,
- william mong,
- thomas bell and party, brown hill,
- dentist,
- amalgam,
- albert sydney sergeant,
- plumber,
- plumbing,
- george spence, plumber,
- commonwealth bank,
- j. hutton-jones,
- golden duke mining syndicate, blackwood,
- d.e.j. grant, eganstown,
- linton gold mining company,
- mining,
- d. bernard,
- g. peron,
- john page,
- david bernard,
- harry webb,
- ah fou,
- w.d. thompson,
- a.b. tolliday,
- m. webb
