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Wallaroo Mines

1917, Photograph, B 5894

Young's shaft, underground storage bin, Wallaroo.

Wallaroo Mines

1917, Photograph, B 5896

View of Wallaroo Mines.

Wallaroo Mines

1917, Photograph, B 5897

View of Wallaroo Mines.

Wallaroo Mines

c. 1917, Photograph, B 5902

Erecting main level timbers, Wallaroo Mines.

Wallaroo Mines

c. 1917, Photograph, B 5901

Erecting main level timbers, Wallaroo Mines.

Wallaroo Mines

1903, Photograph, B 5903

Ore reducing and sorting plant of Office Shaft, Wallaroo Mines.

Wallaroo Mines

1905, Photograph, B 5904

Ore reducing and sorting plant of Office Shaft, Wallaroo Mines.

Wallaroo Mines

1917, Photograph, B 9211

Pay Office at Wallaroo Mines. The portion of the building known as the "Pay Office" where the men are congregated was the original mine office, erected in the early 1860's.

Wallaroo Mines

1916, Photograph, B 9217

Shaft ore bin at Wallaroo Mines. Miners manually tipping the ore bins so the ore can be taken to the surface.

View of Wallaroo Mines. From left the buildings are as follows: Store, Dwelling, Mine Office, Weighbridge, Stables. The locomotive shed is behind the stables. The railway line is in the immediate foreground.

Taylor's Shaft, Wallaroo Mines

c. 1905, Photograph, B 10515

Taylor's Shaft, Wallaroo Mines showing cables being lowered down the new shaft to connect at a lower level with the old one. This was made necessary by a recent fire. Note by Mr Oswald Pryor "figure in the foreground in miner's rig is Captain Thomas Tamblyn. On right is Mr Tom Skinner, engineer and surface manager. Cables were covered with lead to withstand action of acid bearing mine water".

Wallaroo Mines

c. 1912, Photograph, B 12375

Wallaroo Mines, showing Taylor's shaft, Young's shaft, mechanical shops, power plant and Harvey's Attle Crusher.

Wallaroo Mines

c. 1910, Photograph, B 12378

Wallaroo mines, showing ore sorting plant, office shaft and Young's shaft (right) Shortly before this photograph the employment at the mine peaked at a total of 2700 employees. It shut in 1923

Wallaroo Mines

1906, Photograph, B 12607

[Caption on photograph] 'Wallaroo Mines, Taylor's Shaft, 1906. Left to right: Ore storage bin, Poppet head, winding engine-house. Note: Taylor's shaft was sunk a little to the north of the old Taylor's shaft destroyed by fire in 1904 (Oswald Pryor 12-2-52)' A row of ore carts can be seen in the foreground.

Wallaroo Mines

c. 1900, Photograph, B 12610

[General description] Men pose with a locomotive in front of Devon plant. There are a number of full ore wagons making up the train. [Caption on photograph] 'Wallaroo Mines concentrating plant, known as Devon / Buddles and Vanner House / This plant was entirely scrapped about 1911 and was superseded by flotation treatment (Oswald Pryor 12-2-52)'

Wallaroo Mines

c. 1900, Photograph, B 12611

[Caption on photograph] 'Wallaroo Mines Office Shaft / About 1900 / From left to right: Ore sorting plant, poppethead, weighbridge and winding engine-house / Note: the loco (Dubs & Co.) was one of two engines used on the Brighton- Glenelg railway / It was purchased by the Moonta Mining Company when the railway company became defunct (Oswald Pryor 12-2-52)

Wallaroo Mines

c. 1914, Photograph, B 12781

Central Power Plant, Wallaroo Mines.

Ore Crushing, Wallaroo Mines

c. 1914, Photograph, B 12785

Ore crushing and sorting plant known as "Office Plant". Office shaft in centre. Young's shalft on right at Wallaroo Mines.

Taylor's shaft, Wallaroo Mines

c. 1914, Photograph, B 12790

Taylor's Shaft - ore storage bin and Poppet head. This view shows a conveyor belt (right) which was added during the 1914-1918 war period at Wallaroo Mines.

"Devon Plant", Wallaroo Mines

c. 1914, Photograph, B 12795

Ore concentration plant known as "Devon Plant". Here the lower-grade material was crushed and treated by the jigging method (gravitation) and the flotation process. Left: Large tailings dump on which the fine residue sands were deposited by means of a drag-line conveyor at Wallaroo Mines.

Wallaroo Mines

c. 1914, Photograph, B 12798

General view of Wallaroo Mines Left: Store and mine offices. Centre: Taylor's shaft Right: Office shaft.

Unloading Supplies, Wallaroo

c. 1914, Photograph, B 12804

Shaft platform: Miners unloading supplies and tools sent down from the surface, Wallaroo Mines.

Trucking Ore at Wallaroo

c. 1914, Photograph, B 12805

Ore trucked along the level is shown being tipped into a shaft from where it gravitates into the ore-ship which hauls the ore to the surface, Wallaroo Mines.

Wallaroo Mines, General View

Marchant Studios, c. 1905, Photograph, B 13510

General view at Wallaroo Mines showing Power House; Home shaft; corner of mechanical shop; Office shaft and ore sorting plant; mines offices and stores; Young's winding engine and shaft; Harvey's attle (waste rock) crushing plant and pumping engine with stone chimney; miners cottages known as "Jericho".

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