goldmining
49 photos and 1 illustration tagged goldmining, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.
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- State Library of Queensland
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales
- The Library of Congress
- National Library NZ on The Commons
- State Library of New South Wales
- Powerhouse Museum
- UC Berkeley, Department of Geography
- British Library
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Funeral procession for the men killed in a mining accident at Mount Morgan, 1908 from State Library of Queensland uploaded October 2025
Donkey steam engine, Wilson's Reef, Marong, NSW, c.1872 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded July 2024
Miners at the gold diggings outside Charters Towers, ca. 1878 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Gold mining fields outside Charters Towers from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Gold mining on Mount Leyshon near Charters Towers, ca. 1882 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Gold mining town of Mount Leyshon, ca. 1890 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Gold diggings on Towers Hill outside Charters Towers from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Cradling for gold outside Charters Towers from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Illustration from a prospectus of the Brilliant Gold Mining Company, Charters Towers from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Chinese temple in the gold mining town of Tambaroora, New South Wales, ca. 1872 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded February 2023
Hokitika, gold rush town, South Island, New Zealand, 1870s from State Library of New South Wales uploaded November 2022
Sketch map of the Croydon goldfield compiled by W.S. Haig from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2019
Overlooking the suburb of Walterhall, Mount Morgan, ca. 1911 from State Library of Queensland uploaded December 2018
Yukon Territory, Canada from UC Berkeley, Department of Geography uploaded July 2016
Yukon Territory, Canada from UC Berkeley, Department of Geography uploaded July 2016
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Donkey steam engine, Wilson's Reef, Marong, NSW, c.1872
- beachcomber australia said:
Detail of the mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado (LOC)
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CD01 said:
Those items in question may be power transmission supports or part of an aerial tramway bringing ore to the mill.
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JessanneS said:
I second the tramway concept. It would surprise me if those were electrical poles.
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Fedaykin311 said:
Those are tram lines. No reason there would be power lines coming from that direction (up the mountain). You can see the line entering into the tram room atop the mill building.
Ophir Bluff, where gold was first found in Australia
from Powerhouse Museum
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covid convict said:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/162173604 - Sydney Mail, 14th November, 1891...the sketch that appears here looks to have been drawn from this pic... The Sydney Mail's caption: 'Summerhill Creek, Ophir, the spot where the late Mr. Hargreaves first discovered gold.'