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
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!
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..!
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.
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.
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 🇦🇺
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.
I do mention the up country and down country methods briefly in another video, with the promise of exploring it more detail in future. I have a very detailed video about deep lead mining in the works but it is a long term project and a while away. Here's the one where I mention it briefly - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4cpQtfL_qNI.html 🙂 cheers
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??
Thanks, great to hear you're finding these videos helpful! 🙂⚒ No I don't look for gold anymore, I used to, but I'm much more interested in the history 🙂 cheers!
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.