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The Paradise Quarry near Saunders Street, Pyrmont Kurnell sandstone cliffs, view towards Pacific Ocean Sydney sandstone, also known as the Hawkesbury sandstone, [1] yellowblock, and yellow gold, [2] is a sedimentary rock named after Sydney, and the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, where this sandstone is particularly common.
The Adelong Falls Gold Workings is a heritage-listed former gold processing site and now picnic reserve at Adelong, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and built in 1860 by David Wilson and William Ritchie. It is also known as Adelong Falls Gold Workings/Reserve. The property is owned by the Snowy Valleys Council.
Adelong Creek, near Adelong Falls, was the source of water for two waterwheels that powered stamper batteries, at what is now the site known as the Adelong Falls Gold Workings. [3] The bed of Adelong Creek was extensively mined using hydraulic sluicing and gold dredges , during the first half of the 20th century.
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Between 1867 and 1869 over 1,100 kilograms (40,000 oz) of gold were produced each year on the Grenfell goldfields and were the richest gold fields in NSW during this time. Grenfell was a goldmining town first known as Emu Creek and renamed in honour of John Grenfell, Gold Commissioner at Forbes, who had been killed in 1866 when bushrangers ...
By May 1911, miners were extracting rich gold-bearing quartz. [41] Rice, already in poor health, died at the end of August 1912. [42] The mine was sold to another syndicate, Long Tunnel Mining Company, in 1917. [43] It closed again around 1925, [44] and was in the possession of receivers from January 1926. [45]
Alluvial gold was discovered by Mrs Baxter, in 1851, and soon there were 2,000 miners, averaging an ounce of gold per day each. The alluvial gold lasted until around 1856, by which time most of the damage to the creek bed and watercourse — still evident today—had occurred. From 1869 to 1874, the focus of mining turned to quartz reef mining.
Running Stream is a locality in New South Wales, Australia.It is named after the creek flowing through the area. Running Stream is accessed on the Castlereagh Highway.The bus stop near the intersection with Mount Vincent Road is serviced several times a day by buses operated by NSW TrainLink departing from Lithgow railway station towards Gulgong, New South Wales.