Historical information
Albert Richardson had a life long interest in Bendigo's mining. He wrote broadly about the practical aspects of mining and the history of many of the mining companies.
Physical description
One handwritten and typed copies (3 of page 1, 3 of page 2, 2 of page 3 and 2 of page 4). Notes, written by Albert Richardson, include an introduction which mentions the noise of the mining activities, all the machinery being made in Bendigo by the local foundries and the end of the mining.There are explanations of poppet legs or heads, landing brace, intermediate brace, safety brace, pulley wheels, boilers, winding engine, types of engines and air compressors.
Subjects
- document,
- gold,
- mining reports,
- mining reports,
- bendigo mining reports,
- a. roberts & sons,
- h.harkness and coy,
- horsfield's,
- south new moon,
- central deborah,
- great extended hustlers,
- wattle gully mine chewton,
- big deborah mine,
- royal hustlers reserve no 2 shaft,
- the city,
- johnsons reef no 2,
- lansell's comet,
- south devonshire,
- great southern,
- victoria quartz,
- lansell's big '180',
- little '180',
- new moon,
- big blue,
- central blue,
- central nell gwynne,
- lansell's sandhurst or 'needle' mine,
- eureka extended
