Steel Buckets - Mining

Significance

There was some gold mining in the Kiewa Valley and these buckets may have been used.

Physical description

Two small rusty looking steel buckets that are usually connected to a chain with many such buckets. They rotate to form a continuous chain scooping up loose rock and dumping it when mining.
20 cm x 12 cm x 9.5 cm deep

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