Related Subjects
Archival Collections
Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria
- Virtual exhibition, http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/virtualexhibition/index.htm; Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria. Details
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
- General picture collection; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. Details
State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection
- Daintree collection of glass negatives, PCV LTGN 185, PIC LTAF 225; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details
- Gold mines in Victoria, ca. 1860; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details
Published Resources
Books
- Bell, Peter, Historic Sites Associated with Mining and Chinese Settlement in North Queensland, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, 1992. Details
- Butler, Peter, Opium and Gold, Alister Taylor, Waiura, Martinborough, New Zealand, 1977. Details
Book Sections
- Bell, Peter, 'Chinese ovens on mining settlement sites in Australia', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 213-229. Details
- Kirkman, Noreen S, 'The Palmer River Goldfield', in Kennedy, K.H (ed.), Readings in North Queensland Mining History, vol. 1, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 1980. Details
- McCarthy, Justin, 'Tales from the Empire City: Chinese miners in the Pine Creek region, Northern Territory, 1872-1915', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 191-202. Details
Journal Articles
- Kyi, Anna, 'Unravelling the mystery of the Woah Hawp Canton Quartz Mining Company, Ballarat', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 59-78. Details
- McCarthy, Justin, 'Would Be Diggers And Old Travellers, The Chinese At The Union Reefs and the Twelve Mile in the Northern Territory 1876-1910', Trust News, Northern Territory, vol. 6-2, June, pp. 6-10. Details
- McGowan, Barry, 'Reconsidering race: The Chinese experience on the goldfields of southern New South Wales', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 36, no. 124, 2004, pp. 312-331. Details
- McGowan, Barry, 'The Chinese on the Braidwood Goldfields: Historical and archaeological opportunities', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 35-58. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Holland, F.D., 'The Northern Territory: Its goldfields II', Australian Mining Standard, vol. 1, no. 6, 12 April 1900, pp. 339-340. Details
Theses
- Bell, Peter, 'Houses and mining settlement in North Queensland, 1861-1920', PhD thesis, Department of History, James Cook University, 1982. Details
- Ormston, Robert, 'The rise and fall of a frontier mining town: Cooktown, 1873-1885', PhD thesis, Department of History, University of Queensland, 1996. Details
- White, K.B., 'The relationship between Europeans and Chinese in a mining community in 1856 to 1876', BA (hons) Thesis, La Trobe University, 1972. Details
Online Resources
- 'Gold and tin', in Golden Threads Exhibition website, http://hosting.collectionsaustralia.net/goldenthreads/exhibition/goldtin.asp. Details
- Fei Sheng, Techniques used by Chinese immigrants in the Australian gold rushes and their influence [Chinese language], Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Special issue: 'Sources, Languages and Approaches in Chinese Australian History' edited by Bagnall, Kate and Couchman, Sophie, vol. 6, 2013, 145-154 pp, http://www.chl.anu.edu.au/publications/csds/csds2013/csds2013_16.pdf. Details
- Jones, Tim, 'Ping Que: Mining magnate of the Northern Territory, 1854-1886', Journal of Chinese Australia, no. 1, May, http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/jca/issue01/03Jones.html. Details
See also
- Comber, Jillian, 'Chinese sites on the Palmer Goldfield, far north Queensland', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 203-212. Details
- Dwight, Alan, 'Children of the dragon', 40 [Degrees] South: Tasmania and Beyond, vol. 37, 2005, pp. 38-41. Details
- Jones, Timothy G, Pegging the Northern Territory: The History of Mining in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1873-1946, Northern Territory Government Printer, Darwin, 1987. Details
- Lovejoy, Valerie, The things that unite: Inquests into Chinese deaths on the Bendigo goldfields 1854-6, Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, vol. 6, September, http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance/no6/ThingsThatUnitePrint.asp. Details
- Miller, G. and Miller, S., Of Rascals and Rusty Relics: An Introduction to North-East Tasmania, OBM, Hobart, 1979. Details
- Rootes, Trevor, 'Miners of the North-East', 40 [Degrees] South: Tasmania and Beyond, vol. 37, 2005, pp. 42-43. Details
- Chun Yut, http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/chun_yut.htm. Details
- Scott, Joan, Celestial Sojourn: The Chinese on the Tinfields of North East Tasmania, St Helens History Room Association, St Helens, 1997. Details
- Talbot, Diann, The Buckland Valley Goldfield: A Brief History fo the Rush for Gold, the Deaths, the Chinese Tragedy and the Rebellion that Culminated in the Famous Riot, Diann Talbot, Bright, Victoria, 2004. Details
Images
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- Title
- 'Chinese on the road to the Palmer'
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- Illustration
- Date
- 12 June 1875
- Place
- Australia - Queensland - Palmer River
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- Title
- 'Digging life 25 years ago'
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- Illustration
- Date
- 20 December 1879
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst)
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- Forty-head battery, Howley Ltd
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1900
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Howley
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- 'Hell gates on the road to the Palmer'
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- Illustration
- Date
- 22 March 1876
- Place
- Australia - Queensland - Hell Gates
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- Main shaft, Howley Ltd
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1900
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Howley
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- Title
- 'Our Chinamen'
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- Illustration
- Date
- 1 February 1874
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- Portrait of Chinese miner called 'Hatto'
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1910
- Place
- Australia - New South Wales - New England - Rocky River
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- Title
- Three miners (Chinese, European and African?)
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1910
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- Title
- Unidentified man sluicing in Bendigo area
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1889 - c. 1890
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst)
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- Unidentified miner working a cradle near Ballarat
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- Photograph
- Date
- 1880s
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Ballarat
- Details
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- A tin mining group with Gee Backhap, a well-known Lottah resident
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1908
- Place
- Australia - Tasmania - Lottah?
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- Title
- Ballarat mines (including Chow Yew Apothecary)
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1875 - c. 1938
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Ballarat
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- Brocks Creek mining settlement
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- Photograph
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Brock's Creek
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- Chinese gold digger starting for work, ca. 1860s
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1864 - c. 1871
- Place
- Australia - Queensland
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- Cobb & Co coach loaded with people (probably from China) and luggage
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1865 - c. 1871
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Newstead
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- Diggers at Pine Creek, 1910
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1910
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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- Garfield Company's water-wheel, Chewton, 1900's
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- Photograph
- Date
- 1900s
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Forest Creek
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- Gold mining, Chinese encampment, Guildford near Castlemaine
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1861
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Guildford
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- Kit Kap, a tin miner, at Bradshaws Creek, Tasmania
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1914
- Place
- Australia - Tasmania - Bradshaws Creek
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- Kong Meng Co mine
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1860
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Majorca
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- Tin miners, Stanthorpe mineral district
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1873
- Place
- Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe
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- Two unidentified Chinese men sluicing
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1892 - c. 1893
- Place
- Australia
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- Unidentified Chinese man using a wooden rocker for gold prospecting at Pine Creek
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- Photograph
- Date
- 1922
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
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- Unidentified Chinese miner testing for wash, Great Britain Mine, Emmaville, 1899
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1899
- Place
- Australia - New South Wales - Emmaville
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- Unidentified Chinese miner working a cradle at Watery Gully on the Jones property at Wattle Glen
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1905
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Wattle Glen - Watery Gully
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- Unidentified miners at work at Mt Wells tin field
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1910 - c. 1920
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory
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- Unidentified tin mine and battery
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1904
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory
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- Title
- Woah Hawp Canton Mine
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1880 - 1900
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Ballarat
- Details
Created: 19 May 2003, Last modified: 22 September 2005
