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Ryan's Pumping Station [B 12609] • Photograph

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Summary

[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)'

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Physical description

Photograph; 21.3 cm x 15.3 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1901

Photographer

Colmer, N. N

Collection

Part of Moonta Collection

Subject

Mines and mineral resources -- South Australia -- Moonta

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Digitisation information

Date

22/02/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,591 x 2,844 pixels (10.2 MP)

Size

30.67 MB

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