Historical Gold Mining Machinery - A Panoramic View of the Stawell Goldfield 

Wonderful video Michelle 👍 I discovered your channel by chance and really enjoyed watching them. I grew up in Eaglehawk and as kids spent many hours exploring old shafts panning ect. My mate’s grandfather who was born at lightning hill and worked on the moon mine in horse and cart and he was a a wealth of knowledge of which some was passed on to us and the late Ray Wallace. He was a local historian and always had great knowledge of our local history and published a couple of books regarding this. He would walk almost every day from Woodvale to Bendigo library and generally visited many for a cuppa and a chat. Also my great grandfather lived and worked at Fosterville and I have a photo of him and the other miners from this era around late 1890 ? one similar is on display in the reception area of the Fosterville mine now. Anyway thanks for your excellent knowledge and excellent work on our history. You’re a credit to yourself and all us old fellas that enjoy your videos. I’d be interested if you had any knowledge of black rock out at Neilborough. We have heard many stories of which have conflicting views. Cheers Hunty

That was awesome and so are you 😊 thank you.

Thank you, Michelle, for the detailed close-ups of these amazing images and the understanding you bring to interpreting the details, especially about the transitions in mining methods and technologies. Much good cheer to you!

I was born in Stawell in 1977 love these types of history videos it makes you realise how much has changed

The restored photographs are amazing, the detail extraordinary. I worked at Stawell with a Diamond Drilling crew on resource development during the late 90's. Goldfields certainly are addictive..!

Great video as usual thank you michelle

Thank you so much for keeping alive Victorias gold rush history. That was fascinating. I’ve driven up Big Hill and certainly know about its gold rush colonial history but not only never seen that photo. The enhancements and blowing it up brought to life so much you often miss. Your explanations of everything kept my partner and I enthralled. I also didn’t realise that the Stalwell gold field was so concentrated in one area as you can’t see anything beyond the Main Street.

wow its so interesting all the types of pumps and equipment that was used very enjoyable great work Michelle thank you!

Thanks Michelle for another fascinating video. That photo is an incredible snapshot of a moment in history. Thank you for breaking it down and explaining the goings on in the goldfields that day.

I went to the open cut gold mine in Kalgoorlie WA years ago and it was fascinating to see loads of holes spread all over the faces, they were all the old mine tunnels the diggers shovelled out in the gold rush. Eventually they stop showing as you look down toward the bottom of the pit but incredible the depth and the work involved by those guys back then.

G'day, thanks for the interesting 🤔 insight in too a fantastic part of our Gold history and l can wait for your next video, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

Thanks Michelle for the tour around the photo. Great stuff that you picked out to show us. Catch you on the next one 😁👍

Interesting video, you have a great presentation style, thank you

As a big fan of early steam-powered equipment, I really enjoyed this great video. Thanks, Michelle 👌

Those images are amazing. Snapshot of a perfect period in mining history. So much detail. Must have had fun pouring over that. 🤓

Interesting Fascinating !!!

Interesting, thank you.

Great work yet again

Good show

Thank you I've heard the term whim before, that clears something up Paul.

Thanks great video 😊

Another brilliant great video Michelle - so informative. I've had the 'joy' of riding up and down a mine shaft in a kibble with no protection or safety gear - a bit scary tbh. I also have the steel remains of a windlass, which was unfortunately burnt in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, but I still have its winding handles. all of this resonates with me well. :-)

Thanks Michelle great video once again bringing a old photo alive. I live near by at DeepLead just the other day lwas lucky to find a 2 gram nugget detecting.

Yet another great video Michelle! It would seem that when the original photo was taken, that the technology of the Stawell Goldfields were in a state of transition. The muscle power of man and horse was giving way to the power of the steam engine and the different kinds of work that it could perform. 😊 Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

Hey the Goldfields Girl is back!

another top job girl good stuff mate

Another really good video on the forgotten era of horse and steam powered mining . Id love to see you do a video on the Chiltern valley deep lead mines and the differences in the mining methods between what was called the Upland ( Chiltern valley )system that was only covered by Aluviums and the Lowland (Ballarat ) system of mining, That had multiple layers of Basalt. covering the leads.

From windlass and bucket to horses then steam engines in short period of time. Nothing drives innovation like the desire for precious metals.

Hi there. I really love your videos on mining ⛏️ for gold in Australia and I have found that it helps me a lot with my small scale digging in the hills of upper South Carolina. The idea of roasting ore with a fire pit has greatly improved my gold recovery and improved the crushing of my ore’s. Please keep up with the work that you do, I greatly appreciate it. Do you do any digging of your own??

Well great video and like how you explain it all been to lots of mine area's in 🇺🇸 out west the pumping of water is very interesting thank you Michelle ⛏️💰🇺🇸🤔

Try to find a video. Heritagerat, history of bucklands gold fields. The white miners used a square hole. For the windless, but chinese dug round holes, you see a slot on the top of the hole for a shaduf. A beam and fork post. with a counter weight. They could bring up faster.