Photograph, Magdala Mine with woodstacks c1895

Historical information

Magdala cum Moonlight Mine c1895. Showing wooden tanks and woodheap. Directors on left. The fifth from left tall man is Thomas Kinsella.
A horse and dray would go up this ramp and take the crushed sand to the cyanide vats. To load drays with sand a horse would walk under a chute
that was at the end of the conveyor belt and when sand was shoveled onto the conveyor, a dray could be loaded in 12 seconds.

Physical description

B/W Mr. Thomas Kinsella and gentlemen with young child leaning on rails overlooking wood stacks with three workers seated. Wooden vats, buildings. Three people by two horse buggy. labourer standing behind buggy.

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