Pleasant Creek Cross Reef Quartz Mining Co. Stawell

Inside these large sheds are machines for crushing rock to extract the gold.  The tall chimneys come from the furnaces which provide the steam power to drive the crushing machines.

 

William Tibbits, watercolour c.1870

 

Accession number: H96.15

 

From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures Collection.

 

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Rise of company mining