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Senior Department - graphic work examples

c. 1900, Photograph, PRG 1185/7/40

Examples of graphic completed by Senior Department students.

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'.

Moonta Bay jetty in South Australia

c. 1910, Photograph, PRG 280/1/11/230

The sea end of Moonta Bay jetty with the masts of fishing boats in the background and a group of children looking towards the camera.

Agricultural show at Moonta, South Australia

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/13/392

The premises of the Moonta Agricultural Society where people are arriving to see exhibitions at an agricultural show.

The 'Moonta' at Port Adelaide

c. 1860, Photograph, PRG 1373/37/22

The wooden ship 'Moonta', 627 tons, at Port Adelaide [wooden 3 mast ship rig. 655 tons, alt. 1865 - 598. ON43145. 137.0 x 29.0 x 21.4. Built 1847 Newcastle, USA and named 'Seth Sprague'. Acquired Oct. 1864 by Hy. Simpson and renamed 'Moonta'. Owners H Simpson, T Elder and RB Smith, registered Port Adelaide May 1884 Simpson Bros. and Elder and Smith. Broken up and register closed in 1900. Employed in coal trade between Newcastle, NSW, Wallaroo and Port Adelaide for many years. See 'Black Diamond Line' by Parsons]

M.V. Moonta at Port Lincoln

Phillips, Keith P., 1935, Photograph, PRG 1712/4/3

Adelaide Steamship Company's M.V. Moonta at Port Lincoln.

M.V. Moonta at Port Lincoln

Phillips, Keith P., 1935, Photograph, PRG 1712/4/2

Adelaide Steamship Company's M.V. Moonta at Port Lincoln.

Moonta Mines, showing the mines and surrounding residential area [cartographic material]

1918, Archival map/chart, C 445

Plan of Moonta Mines, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Shows mine shafts and offices, house lot numbers, roads, tram and rail lines, school, showgrounds and churches. Concentric circles at 1/4 mile intervals from Post Office. Light blue text on dark blue background.

[Pastoral leases and mineral sections, Wallaroo Moonta area] [cartographic material]

1861, Archival map/chart, C 881

Map of portion of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, showing pastoral leases with names, numbers and area with mineral sections where Wallaroo and Moonta are situated. Shows coastline north and south of Point Riley.

Plan of Moonta, Yelta and Karkarilla mining sections [cartographic material]

Archival map/chart, C 755

Plan of mining sections of Moonta, Yelta and Karkarilla on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Gives section numbers, mine and shaft names, location of town and mine buildings and tram line.

c. 1860, Photograph, B 6343

George Street in Moonta. Two storied centre building is a branch of the National Bank, erected in 1866. (Note by Mr O Pryor) Another two storey building is along side the Bank and a single storey Chemist, Druggist and Bookseller is on the other side. Both of these smaller buildings have wide verandahs overhanging the footpath.

Ploughing slimes at the Mines

1921, Photograph, B 9208

Ploughing slimes to promote oxidation at the Moonta Mines. A train pulling carriages filled with ore can be seen with the engine facing backwards, and nearby a tractor with continuous tracks is ploughing slime from the mine workings.

Moonta Mines

1921, Photograph, B 9209

Tractor discharging slimes into trucks. The tractor has continuous tracks and appears on a raised bridge. The slag heapof waste material from the mine's workings can be seen in the background.

Richman's Engine House

Duryea, Edwin, c. 1884, Photograph, B 10513

Richman's Engine House and Ore Concentrating plant. Stone building was completed in 1870. Length of stone building 42 feet, height 46 feet. The enginehouse was built between 1867 and 1869 using stone from Moonta Beach. It was used for crushing and concentrating ore from nearby shafts.

Hughes' Pump House

c. 1864, Photograph, B 12588

Hughes' Pump House, Moonta Mines - Ore Dressing. The function of the pump house was to dewater the underground workings on the mine's largest orebodies. These orebodies were worked over a length of 1000 metres and to depths of more than 700 metres. The pump house worked continuously for over 58 years. The horse whim can be seen in the background. This device is similar to a capstan, a rope is wound around the drum with both ends transversing several pulleys hanging down the mine shaft. As the capstan is turned one end is lowered, carrying an empty bucket while the other one is raised carrying a full load

Ryan's Pumping Station

Colmer, N. N., c. 1901, Photograph, B 12609

[General description] Three large boilers on a platform and a chimney stack are seen in front of the pumping station. Railway tracks are in the foreground. [Caption on photograph] 'Moonta Mines: Ryan's Pumping Station 1901-06 / Built 1901 for pumping leaching liquors over old tailings dumps for the purpose of extracting copper by the cementation process / Capacity 35,000 gallons per hour (Oswald Pryor 12-2-52)'