Victoria. Report of the Royal Commission, appointed to Enquire into the Best Method of Removing the Sludge from the Gold Fields; together with Proceedings of the Commission, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendices

Edité par Melbourne: John Ferres, 1859.

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Folio (13 1/8 x 8 inches). Printed on blue paper. FINE FOLDING CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED MAP WITH ORIGINAL HAND COLOUR OF THE VALLEY OF BENDIGO, folding leaf of profiles of slag heaps, full-page profiles of Bendigo Creek, Reservoir near Irish Town Bridge, Golden Square Bridge, and 2 of sluice gates. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. An extensive report, illustrated with a very fine map of Bendigo, investigating how best to carry off sludge from the puddling mills at Sandhurst, without interfering with the drainage of the town and the roads in the neighbourhood. "Throughout the gold field the injurious consequences o the choking up of the natural drainage channel, and the want of a proper system for carrying off the sludge from the puddling mills, is everywhere apparent. Even in the gullies where the ground lies relatively higher, large areas may be seen of partially worked ground which have been overflowed by the sludge and rendered almost worthless. On the flats and low levels the damage is even more extensive; in many places, and particularly at the junction of large gullies where the sludge has found no outlet, and has consequently spread to vast mud estuaries, it has covered many acres of valuable auriferous land, filling up the water-dams, and rendering useless the machines erected in these localities; in some instances it has risen to so great a height that the machines themselves have been totally submerged. This is the case particularly at the junction of Long ad Ironbark gullies with the Bendigo Flat, where the sludge has attained a height of twelve feet above the level of the old workings" (page 3-4). Alluvial gold was first discovered in the creek at Bendigo in 1851, but was soon depleted and a system of puddling the topsoil down to the bedrock was developed to get at the gold trapped within it By 1853 By1853, the alluvial gold was "increasingly hard to find and some miners turned to crushing the quartz reefs which were standing above the surface, first using hand methods and then crushing machines. The miners followed the quartz reefs below the surface, until, in the 1890s, a few shafts were nearly 1,500 metres deep. Booms in quartz mining occurred in 1859 and 1871; gold production declined gradually as the mines were deepened but there was a revival during the 1890s depression and, in the early 1900s, production was maintained with the cyanide treatment of gold left in the earlier tailings" (Bendigo Historical Society online).

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Titre
Victoria. Report of the Royal Commission, appointed to Enquire into the Best Method of Removing the Sludge from the Gold Fields; together with Proceedings of the Commission, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendices
Auteur
AUSTRALIA - GOLD RUSH
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Melbourne: John Ferres, 1859.
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Australia, Gold Rush

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