Very interesting talk, I could listen to Peter all day. Thanks for bringing us this interview. I grew up in Ballarat in a family that had a long standing interest in gold and mining techniques and technology. We lived for some time on the lower fringes of BlackHill. Our house was over-shadowed by mullock heaps, and the house itself sat where the workshops for one of old mining operations had been. You didn't have to dig deep to find evidence of the engineering workshops; old graphite foundry pots, mountains of machine and lathe turnings etc.
Not to mention horseshoes with a lip on the outside for horses that spent their lives walking in a circle and (wait for it) ore carts. There was a minor landslide in the Yarrowee River due to erosion a few years ago and it uncovered a row of ore carts that must have been dumped there, possibly when they were setting up the brickworks.
So interesting.fires in shafts you would not think off and those horses and how valued they where to have there own private escape capsule in the event of flooding.incredible insight Peter and Michelle.thank you for this story 🙂👍🏼❤
G'day, thanks for the video, l have just come back from working in Europe on a large mining company trying to sort out a water pollution control system, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Do you have any information about the Scottish & Cornish mine at Black Lead? My great grandfather was the mine manager there in the 1860s. (John Davey). He was the manager when they had a mine fire that trapped men down in the tunnel and he went down to lead them out.
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Very interesting talk, I could listen to Peter all day.
Thanks for bringing us this interview.
I grew up in Ballarat in a family that had a long standing interest in gold and mining techniques and technology.
We lived for some time on the lower fringes of BlackHill.
Our house was over-shadowed by mullock heaps, and the house itself sat where the workshops for one of old mining operations had been.
You didn't have to dig deep to find evidence of the engineering workshops; old graphite foundry pots, mountains of machine and lathe turnings etc.
And local crims in sebas
Not to mention horseshoes with a lip on the outside for horses that spent their lives walking in a circle and (wait for it) ore carts. There was a minor landslide in the Yarrowee River due to erosion a few years ago and it uncovered a row of ore carts that must have been dumped there, possibly when they were setting up the brickworks.
Bloody amazing, thank you.
Thanks Michelle for another brilliant walk through of a great lithograph. I really enjoy these 😁👍
A fantastic video and great commentary from Peter McCarthy
Always enjoy your videos Michelle, thanks so much 👍
Super stuff.
Many thanks
So interesting.fires in shafts you would not think off and those horses and how valued they where to have there own private escape capsule in the event of flooding.incredible insight Peter and Michelle.thank you for this story 🙂👍🏼❤
Fascinating stuff
G'day, thanks for the video, l have just come back from working in Europe on a large mining company trying to sort out a water pollution control system, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Those drawings really ended up being a great visual preservation of important history.
Aren't they amazing! 🙂
Bloody interesting.
Do you have any information about the Scottish & Cornish mine at Black Lead? My great grandfather was the mine manager there in the 1860s. (John Davey). He was the manager when they had a mine fire that trapped men down in the tunnel and he went down to lead them out.
Can't imagine how hot it would've been to work under there.
Was the advanced system highly profitable?