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1930s Gold Mining – The Homestake Mine
Today we’re going to take a look at historical gold mining methods using archival footage from the late 1930s. This brilliant educational film gives us a glimpse into the operations at the Homestake Mine in South Dakota over eighty years ago, showing us their methods of reaching, extracting, raising, and processing the ore. The Homestake Mine was once the deepest…
Read More » A Glimpse Underground – The Cosmopolitan Gold Mining Company
Hi guys, today we’re going to take a look at Ballarat’s Cosmopolitan Gold Mining Company as it was in the year 1864! The Cosmopolitan was an underground alluvial mine which was working on the Golden Point and Cosmopolitan leads. The company was registered in the year 1856, and commenced work early the next year. There are quite a few interesting…
Read More »Flooded Opal Mine, Hardcore Digging For Gems!
After months of downtime, we have finally made our way back out to white cliffs to begin a season of mining only to discover the mine flooded! With thousands of litres of water between us and the opal level we grabbed a pump got it going and focus our efforts on another area of the claim. Utilising a blower I…
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