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• State Library of Queensland 74 photos & illustrations
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• The Library of Congress 13 photos & illustrations
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• Smithsonian Institution 10 photos & illustrations
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• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 4 photos & illustrations
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Ted Densley and L. Porter with a pan full of gold in Wenlock, Queensland ca. 1930

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Wenlock Goldfield is a heritage-listed mine in Archer River, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1892 to 1950s. It is also known as Batavia Goldfield and Lower Camp (Wenlock). It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 March 2006. Wenlock Goldfield (formerly Batavia Goldfield) and the settlement of Lower Camp are situated along the eastern bank of the Wenlock River on Cape York Peninsula, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Coen. The Batavia Goldfield was proclaimed in 1892, following discovery of gold at Retreat Creek (a tributary of the Wenlock). In subsequent years camps known as Bairdsville, Top Camp (Plutoville), and Lower Camp (Wenlock) were established and supplied from Coen. The settlement of Lower Camp was formed after Kitty Pluto discovered gold there in 1915. It became the main township on the Batavia Goldfield in the 1930s and was officially named Wenlock in 1938. It is around this time also, that the Batavia Goldfield became known as the Wenlock Goldfield. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenlock_Goldfield

Prospectors panning for gold at Wenlock, Queensland, ca. 1930

from State Library of Queensland

• spelio said:

  See photos and location on ExplorOz here.. www.exploroz.com/places/122000/QLD+batavia-goldfield

Gold mining on Mount Leyshon near Charters Towers, ca. 1882

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Alluvial Gold Some rocks containing gold veins have been exposed on the surface and are eroding away. The gold that these rocks contained has been washed down into creeks to form alluvial (placer) gold deposits. Here, the gold is further concentrated by the action of water. Because gold is heavier than most of the material moved by a creek or river, it can become concentrated in hollows and trapped in the bed of the river. These are known as secondary (alluvial) gold deposits and they can be worked using a gold pan or cradle. Alluvial gold deposits sparked the Australian gold rushes of the 1850's Source: www.ga.gov.au/education/classroom-resources/minerals-ener...