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Battery of Stampers for Crushing Quartz, 1875

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/5

Scope and Contents

180 x 127 mm. A view of the crushing machines, complete with water sluices which separate the crushed rock from the gold. Explanation on mount reads ‘The reduction of quartz by stampers, is the only method at present adopted on the Gold Fields of Bendigo. The most extensive plants, being those at Koch’s Pioneer Claim, Long Gully; The Extended Hustler’s; also the Garden Gully United; and the Abe Lincoln Crushing Plant, New Chum Gully’.

Dates

  • Creation: 1875

Creator

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Language of Materials

English

Finding aid date

2014-07-25 15:51:25+00:00

Includes index.

Repository Details

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