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49 photos and 1 illustration tagged goldmining, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.

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• queensland
• statelibraryofqueensland
• miners
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• bushland
• 1900s
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• State Library of Queensland 32 photos & illustrations
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 4 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library NZ on The Commons 3 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 3 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• UC Berkeley, Department of Geography 2 photos & illustrations
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Gold mining town of Mount Leyshon, ca. 1890

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The multiple gold locations of Queensland that were spread far and wide across the state have certainly and importantly contributed to the economy of Australia. Ranging from Queensland’s far north towards the southern regions, these gold-bearing zones form some of the better-known goldfields of the nation. There were also many lesser-known goldfields that marked their own significant contributions in the past, but which have now been long forgotten. There still exist several gold locations that most prospectors might have not even come across to nor ever heard of. New discoveries of gold continued to occur in Queensland, particularly in 1986, when the precious yellow metal was found in Kidston Town in the Shire of Etheridge; and, in the Mt. Leyshon near Charters Towers, where gold deposits have been sporadically reworked. Source: raregoldnuggets.com/?p=529

Mountain streams in Ouray County, Colorado run yellow because of the tailings from the gold mills (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Colorado Kid 42 said:

  I think all the gold mines in this area are now closed. My father-in-law worked at the Camp Bird mine in the fifties. It was the last one in operation.

Detail of the mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• CD01 said:

  Those items in question may be power transmission supports or part of an aerial tramway bringing ore to the mill.

• JessanneS said:

  I second the tramway concept. It would surprise me if those were electrical poles.

• 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.