Document - NORTH DEBORAH , DEBORAH, CENTRAL NELL GWYNNE AND NAPOLEON GOLD MINES

Physical description

Five interpretive cards used for displays, yellow with black and orange text, describing the North Deborah, Deborah, Central Nell Gwynne and Napoleon Gold Mines.
a. North Deborah: closed 16th November 1954. Shaft was 1300 feet deep. Total dividends 686,200 pounds.
b. Deborah: underground operations suspended 1952, shaft 2076 feet.
c. Central Nell Gwynne: operations ceased at end of 1949, shaft depth 1933 feet.
d. Napoleon: first subsidiary company formed by BML to carry out comprehensive programme of development along Napoleon anticline. Shaft 1054 feet in 1937 when opertions ceased.
e. Devonshire Sands, formed in 1933. Cyanide leaching plants installed on sand tailings heaps at Bendigo.

Inscriptions & markings

Albert Richardson

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