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Moonta Mines views

c. 1910, Photograph, B 72434/1-7

Views of Moonta Mines mine areas and township (captions as written in white ink on frames). See 'Contents' note for details. Part of a collection of lantern slides of the Copper triangle towns - see also B 72435/1-11 and B 72436.

Moonta Mines Methodist Sunday School

c. 1900, Photograph, PRG 1185/7/1

View of the buildings that made up the Moonta Mines Methodist Sunday School, with a large stone hall and two smaller buildings.

The Moonta Mines Turks Football Team

1906, Photograph, B 29712

The Moonta Mines Turks Football Team. Back row, left to right: W. Evan (Trainer); J. Thomas; S. Gibson; C. Penberthy; F. Teague; B. Spangler; S. Worrall; A. Spangler; W. Barkell (Trainer). Centre Row: Wallis; W.J. Carter (Committee); R. Searle (Delegate and Hon. Sec.) W.H. Hayes (Patron); W. Coombe (President); T. Teague (Captain); A.L. Floyd (Treasurer); H. Carpenter (Delegate); P. Sampson. Front row: L. Webster; W. Teague; A. French; W. Trembath; A. Slee; S. Martin; H. Searle.

Mine office at Moonta Mines

c. 1910, Photograph, B 12587

Mine office at Moonta Mines. The mines were the centre of a copper mining industry that formed the colonial South Australia's largest mining enterprise.

Apprentices at Moonta Mines

c. 1890, Photograph, B 26969

Apprentices and other staff outside Moonta Mines Engineering Shop.

Cementation works at Moonta Mines

c. 1902, Photograph, B 12755

Circulating Pumps for Cementation works at Moonta Mines.

Timbering at Moonta Mine

c. 1910, Photograph, B 24096

Moonta mines underground timbering.

c. 1908, Photograph, B 19607

Rotunda at Moonta mines.

Moonta Mines Timbermen

c. 1910, Photograph, B 24094

Moonta mines timbermen.

Stables, Moonta Mines

c. 1898, Photograph, B 34863

Moonta Mines stables and mechanical shops.

Trucking Ore, Moonta Mines

c. 1900, Photograph, B 30343

Trucking ore from shoot at 205 level in Young's Shaft, Moonta Mines.

Machine Shops, Moonta Mines

Duryea, Edwin, c. 1884, Photograph, B 10514

Machine Shops at the Mines, employed 300 hands at peak period. By 1875 Moonta was the second largest town in South Australia and the largest copper region in the British Empire. Moonta Mines area had a population of 5,000 residents.

Moonta Mines

Colmer, N. N., c. 1907, Photograph, B 12616

[General description] Surface installation Treuer's shaft, Moonta Mines [Caption of photograph] 'Moonta Mines, Treuer's shaft, left to right; Ore bin, poppet head, wInding engine-house / Erected about 1907 to replace obsolete plant' (Mr. Oswald Pryor 12-2-52)

Plan and elevation of Moonta Mines Sunday School

c. 1900, Photograph, PRG 1185/7/4

Copy of an original architectural drawing of 'Moonta Mines Methodist Sunday School - general plane shewing classrooms, etc'. Includes floor plan of all three buildings and an elevation.

Miner's cottage, Moonta Mines

c. 1900, Photograph, B 12612

[General description] Like all of the earliest miners cottages this single storey iron roofed dwelling was built from whatever materials were at hand. It is possibly wattle and daub construction with limestone chimneys. It is surrounded by a rough picket fence. [On back of photograph] 'Moonta Mines / Miners cottage / known as Peter Bowden's / Believed to be one of the earliest built on the Moonta mining leases / Situated a little south of the Wesleyan Methodist Church It was occupied for more than 80 years / Demolished following the death of Mary Bowden, last surviving member of the family / (Oswald Pryor 12-2-52)'

Moonta Mines, Port Moonta

Colmer, N. N., c. 1900, Photograph, B 12606

[Caption on photograph] Moonta Mines: Pumping station at Moonta Bay (1900-06). Built at Rossiter's Point, Mooonta Bay, 1901 for the purpose of pumping seawater 2.5 miles to the Mines in connection with the treating of tailings by the cementation process (Oswald Pryor 12-2-52)

Moonta Mines

1946, Photograph, B 17009/2

Moonta Mines : in foreground Hughes shaft then Truqr's with Hamley Mine in rear.

Moonta Mines Sunday School Mothers' meeting

c. 1900, Photograph, PRG 1185/7/46

A group of women, some men and toddlers in a courtyard at the Moonta Mines Methodist Sunday School, identified as 'Mothers' meeting. Baptismal service'.

Staff of Moonta Mines

1865, Photograph, B 12243

Superintendent and staff of Moonta Mines. Back row: Cpt. Rapson; Mr Davies; Mr France; Cpt. Knowles; Cpt. Barkla; Cpt. Paynter; Mr Phillips; Mr Neales; Mr Jolly; Cpt. Bic.... Front row: Cpt. William Datson; Cpt. Osborne; Cpt. Deeble; Supt. Hancock; Mr Wyatt; Mr. Bennett; Cpt. Mitc... In 1864 Henry Richard Hancock (1836-1919) became superintendent of the Moonta Mining Company. In 1873 Hancock persuaded the directors to maintain constant production and employment by assuring a minimum wage for bad years

Moonta Mines

c. 1870, Photograph, B 12597

Elder's Engine House and hauling appliances., Moonta Mines about 1862-3. The first engine house erected at Moonta. Elder's shaft shown in this picture was the first shaft in which steam power was used for hauling

Cementation works at Moonta Mines

c. 1910, Photograph, B 12762

Precipitating Tanks, copper being removed from one of the tanks at the Cementation works at Moonta Mines.

Cementation works at Moonta Mines

c. 1902, Photograph, B 12765

Settling Pits at end of precipitating canals, also channel delivering iron liquors back to the pump at the Cementation works at Moonta Mines.

Moonta Mines

c. 1913, Photograph, B 19609

Young boys sorting ore on tables at Moonta mines.

Stables, Moonta Mines

c. 1898, Photograph, B 34861

Moonta Mines Stables, the chaff house.

Moonta Mines

1917, Photograph, B 5895

Young's shaft, Moonta Mines.

Hughes pumping house at the Moonta Mine

c. 1900, Photograph, B 58893

MOONTA: Hughes pumping house at the Moonta Mine.

Buildings at Moonta Mine

c. 1900, Photograph, B 58894

MOONTA: Buildings at Moonta Mine.

Moonta

c. 1900, Photograph, PRG 1185/7/50

View over the town of 'Moonta Mines showing Church and Sunday School'.

Moonta Mines

1911, Photograph, B 5905/1-4

Photographs of the Moonta mining area, near Ryan's no. 4 tailings heap.

General view of Moonta Mines

Bauer & Simmons, c. 1896, Photograph, B 12592

General view of Moonta Mines. Note on back of photograph says "Western lodes, looking north from Hamley No. 1 shaft. Dated approximately 1896. From left - Hamley No. 1 Shaft, Hancock's Pumping engine house and concentrating plant, Green's Shaft, Bower's Winding Engine, Beddome's Shaft and winding engine house, Lloyd's Shaft, and Ryan's engine house in distance on the extreme right"

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