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Kapunda [B 16109] • Photograph

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Summary

A Blackstone Oil Engine, with some workers and two young women standing beside it, at Kapunda. [Information provided by Tim Macaire]. As mines got deeper a steam engine was used in 1847 to drive a water pump. This was was replaced by a larger one in 1851. In 1865 the mine was leased to a Scottish company which switched to open cut mining methods. Mining operations ceased in 1851 and restarted in 1855 after the Victorian goldrush. Kapunda was the saviour of South Australia's financial woes in the 1840s.

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Physical description

Photograph; 25.7 cm x 19.7 cm

Dates / Publication details

1929

Collection

Part of Kapunda Collection

Subject

Employees -- South Australia -- Kapunda

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Digitisation information

Date

07/11/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,069 x 2,494 pixels (7.7 MP)

Size

23.00 MB

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