Notebooks relating to New South Wales gold mining methods

MLMSS 11965

fonds

approximately 1851-1898, 1904-1910

Textual Records, Clippings, Drawings

9675704

0.16 metres of textual material (1 box)

Alfred Ernest Stephen (1879-1961) was an agricultural and industrial chemist and a grandson of Sir Alfred Stephen (1802-1894), Chief Justice of New South Wales.

Reference:
“RE will and two codicils of Alfred Ernest Stephen”. Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW : 1901-2001), Friday 9 March 1962 (Issue No. 22), page 709. Accessed 15 August 2023.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220247712

"Stephen, Mary Marion (1850-1924)". Obituaries Australia. Accessed 15 August, 2023.
https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/stephen-mary-marion-1305
E. E. Tyler was the owner of the Klondyke Mine, West Wyalong, between 1898 and 1907.

References:
"West Wyalong." The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871-1912), Saturday, August 27, 1898, page 535. Accessed 15 August 2023.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163809818

Duncan, Andrew A. "The Klondyke." The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette (NSW : 1900-1928), Wednesday January 6, 1908, page 2. Accessed 15 August 2023.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108649976

The Mining, Exploration and Geoscience Library received the notebooks following the decommissioning of the Mineral Resources Library at the former Department of Mines, where Alfred Stephen had donated the items on his retirement.

This collection consists of two bound notebooks:
1. 'Notes etc. on Methods, &c. practised at The Lachlan Gold Fields Ltd., Forbes, N. S. W.', Alfred E. Stephen
2. 'Volume II Minerals', E. E. Tyler, Klondyke Mine Wyalong, (Wheeler’s Hotel)

The notebooks contain manuscript notes and clippings intended for researching gold mines management and methodologies. Subjects include analysis of water supply from mines; bullion assay; wages and salaries for occupations; costs sheets; battery returns; notes on prospecting with a diamond drill; analysis and assay of ores; method of starting a blast furnace; returns of gold mines. Alfred Stephen's notebook also includes formal examination questions and technical drawings of equipment.

Out of copyright:
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