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    Chinese, European and Negro miners, ca. 1910., c. 1910, courtesy of Chinese Museum.
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    A miner working a cradle near Ballarat in the 1980s [sic], 1880s, courtesy of Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria.
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    Ballarat Mines, c. 1875 - c. 1938, by Ward, H. C. photographer, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Chinese gold digger starting for work, ca. 1860s, by Daintree, Richard, 1832-1878, photographer, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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    Chinese leaving for the diggings. Cobb's Coach Castlemaine, 1852 - 1888, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Garfield Company's water-wheel, Chewton, 1900's, 1900s, courtesy of Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria.
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    Gold mining, Chinese encampment, Guildford near Castlemaine, c. 1861, by Daintree, Richard, 1832-1878, photographer, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Kong Meng Co. (Chinese) Majorca [picture], c. 1860, courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection.
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    Tin miners, Stanthorpe mineral district, ca. 1873, c. 1873, by Boag, William, 1838?-1878, courtesy of State Library of Queensland - John Oxley.
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    Gold prospecting, Pine Creek, 1922, courtesy of State Library of South Australia.
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Archival Collections

Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria

  • Virtual exhibition, http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/virtualexhibition/index.htm; Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria [ Details... ].

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

  • General picture collection; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery [ Details... ].

State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection

  • Daintree collection of glass negatives, PCV LTGN 185, PIC LTAF 225; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].
  • Gold mines in Victoria, ca. 1860; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection [ Details... ].

Published Resources

Books

  • Bell, Peter, Historic Sites Associated with Mining and Chinese Settlement in North Queensland, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, 1992. [ Details... ]
  • Butler, Peter, Opium and Gold, Alister Taylor, Waiura, Martinborough, New Zealand, 1977. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Bell, Peter, 'Chinese ovens on mining settlement sites in Australia', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 213-229. [ Details... ]
  • Kirkman, Noreen S, 'The Palmer River Goldfield', in Kennedy, K.H (ed.), Readings in North Queensland Mining History, vol. 1, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 1980. [ Details... ]
  • McCarthy, Justin, 'Tales from the Empire City: Chinese miners in the Pine Creek region, Northern Territory, 1872-1915', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 191-202. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • Kyi, Anna, 'Unravelling the mystery of the Woah Hawp Canton Quartz Mining Company, Ballarat', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 59-78. [ Details... ]
  • McCarthy, Justin, 'Would Be Diggers And Old Travellers, The Chinese At The Union Reefs and the Twelve Mile in the Northern Territory 1876-1910', Trust News, Northern Territory, vol. 6-2, June, pp. 6-10. [ Details... ]
  • McGowan, Barry, 'Reconsidering race: The Chinese experience on the goldfields of southern New South Wales', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 36, no. 124, 2004, pp. 312-331. [ Details... ]
  • McGowan, Barry, 'The Chinese on the Braidwood Goldfields: Historical and archaeological opportunities', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 35-58. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

  • Holland, F.D., 'The Northern Territory: Its goldfields II', Australian Mining Standard, vol. 1, no. 6, 12 April 1900, pp. 339-340. [ Details... ]

Theses

  • Bell, Peter, 'Houses and mining settlement in North Queensland, 1861-1920', PhD thesis, Department of History, James Cook University, 1982. [ Details... ]
  • Ormston, Robert, 'The rise and fall of a frontier mining town: Cooktown, 1873-1885', PhD thesis, Department of History, University of Queensland, 1996. [ Details... ]
  • White, K.B., 'The relationship between Europeans and Chinese in a mining community in 1856 to 1876', BA (hons) Thesis, La Trobe University, 1972. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

See also

  • Comber, Jillian, 'Chinese sites on the Palmer Goldfield, far north Queensland', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 203-212. [ Details... ]
  • Dwight, Alan, 'Children of the dragon', 40 [Degrees] South: Tasmania and Beyond, vol. 37, 2005, pp. 38-41. [ Details... ]
  • Jones, Timothy G, Pegging the Northern Territory: The History of Mining in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1873-1946, Northern Territory Government Printer, Darwin, 1987. [ Details... ]
  • Lovejoy, Valerie, The things that unite: Inquests into Chinese deaths on the Bendigo goldfields 1854-6, Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, vol. 6, September, http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance/no6/ThingsThatUnitePrint.asp. [ Details... ]
  • Miller, G. and Miller, S., Of Rascals and Rusty Relics: An Introduction to North-East Tasmania, OBM, Hobart, 1979. [ Details... ]
  • Rootes, Trevor, 'Miners of the North-East', 40 [Degrees] South: Tasmania and Beyond, vol. 37, 2005, pp. 42-43. [ Details... ]
  • Rule, Pauline, Chun Yut, http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/chun_yut.htm. [ Details... ]
  • Scott, Joan, Celestial Sojourn: The Chinese on the Tinfields of North East Tasmania, St Helens History Room Association, St Helens, 1997. [ Details... ]
  • Talbot, Diann, The Buckland Valley Goldfield: A Brief History fo the Rush for Gold, the Deaths, the Chinese Tragedy and the Rebellion that Culminated in the Famous Riot, Diann Talbot, Bright, Victoria, 2004. [ Details... ]

Images

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Chinese, European and Negro miners, ca. 1910.
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Photograph
Date
c. 1910
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Portrait of Chinese miner called 'Hatto'
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - New South Wales - New England - Rocky River
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Unidentified miner working a cradle near Ballarat
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Photograph
Date
1880s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Ballarat
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A tin mining group with Gee Backhap, a well-known Lottah resident
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1908
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Lottah?
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Ballarat mines (including Chow Yew Apothecary)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1875 - c. 1938
Place
Australia - Victoria - Ballarat
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Brocks Creek mining settlement
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Photograph
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek
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Chinese gold digger starting for work, ca. 1860s
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1864 - c. 1871
Place
Australia - Queensland
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Cobb & Co coach loaded with people (probably from China) and luggage
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Photograph
Date
c. 1865 - c. 1871
Place
Australia - Victoria - Newstead
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Diggers at Pine Creek, 1910
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Photograph
Date
c. 1910
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Garfield Company's water-wheel, Chewton, 1900's
Type
Photograph
Date
1900s
Place
Australia - Victoria - Forest Creek
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Gold mining, Chinese encampment, Guildford near Castlemaine
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1861
Place
Australia - Victoria - Guildford
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Kit Kap, a tin miner, at Bradshaws Creek, Tasmania
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Bradshaws Creek
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Kong Meng Co mine
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1860
Place
Australia - Victoria - Majorca
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Tin miners, Stanthorpe mineral district
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Photograph
Date
c. 1873
Place
Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe
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Two unidentified Chinese men sluicing
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1892 - c. 1893
Place
Australia
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Unidentified Chinese man using a wooden rocker for gold prospecting at Pine Creek
Type
Photograph
Date
1922
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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Unidentified Chinese miner testing for wash, Great Britain Mine, Emmaville, 1899
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1899
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Emmaville
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Unidentified Chinese miner working a cradle at Watery Gully on the Jones property at Wattle Glen
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1905
Place
Australia - Victoria - Wattle Glen - Watery Gully
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Unidentified tin mine and battery
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
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Woah Hawp Canton Mine
Type
Photograph
Date
1880 - 1900
Place
Australia - Victoria - Ballarat
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Created: 19 May 2003, Last modified: 22 September 2005