Mines and mining

Macintyre’s store, mining settlement, upper Clarence

Early workings in the Baker's Creek Mining area, Hillgrove

Tin dredge in flooded creek, Tingha, 16 November 1917

Jock Usher (front) and Bill Faint sharpening drills, Damifino Mine, c. 1948

Ramming home the charge with a ramrod made from a broom handle, Damifino Mine. c. 1948

Andy Boundy drilling on the wall of the Damifino Mine with an impact jack hammer, c.1948

Mt. Malcolm, goldfields near Crow Mountain. Malcolm Mackenzie's mine, mined 1930s

A big stope in the Eleanora Mine Hillgrove, 1908

Wreckage at the foot of Baker's Creek Gorge after the Boiler disaster of 1913.

Wreckage at the foot of Baker's Creek Gorge after the Boiler disaster of 1913.

Digging for alluvial gold, Sydney Flat

Hugo's Dredge below the junction near the butcher's shop

Alluvial goldfields

Baker's Creek Tramline, The Gorge, Hillgrove, NSW

Gold mining at Rocky River using a cradle

Alluvial gold miner's equipment, at Rocky River

Chinese miner, known as "Hatto"

Alluvial mining at the "Butcher's Shop", junction of creeks near Mt. Welsh

Cope's Creek near Inverell Bridge, Thomas Dredge. Mr. Fred Thomas is the engine driver.

Hillgrove: Baker's Creek Gold Mine and Tramway, c. 1895.

Hillgrove: Baker's Creek Gorge, Baker's Creek Gold Mining Co's. Tramway

Torrington/Inverell district: Extemporised "Chilian" Mill, John Trewheelar's near Torrington, 1906

Sketch of Mining: Inverell district: Tin sluicing at Cope's Creek (Tingha)