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Old Kintore headframe, now a museum exhibit, Broken Hill Former Delprat mine, Line of Lode, Broken Hill, 2017. The Broken Hill Ore Deposit is located underneath Broken Hill in western New South Wales, Australia, and is the namesake for the town. It is arguably the world's richest and largest zinc-lead ore deposit.
In the 1840s, Gold Hill was "a raucous mining camp town with a considerable number of saloons and brothels." [ 6 ] The Barnhardt shaft, named for Col. George Barnhardt [ 6 ] of the Reed Mine (NC State Historic Site) family, was opened in 1842 [ citation needed ] and reached a depth of 435 feet.
Gold Hill: 12: Lentz Hotel: Lentz Hotel: June 14, 1982 ... NC 1624, 0.3 miles NE of jct. with SR 1622 ... The Reed Gold Mine is located in Midland, North Carolina ...
The former Broken Hill Proprietary Company logo. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP), also known by the nickname "the Big Australian", [21] was incorporated on 13 August 1885, operating the silver and lead mine at Broken Hill, in western New South Wales, Australia. [22] [23] The Broken Hill group floated on 10 August 1885. [24]
The belt is best known for old abandoned gold mines. North Carolina led the nation in gold production for 50 years, between the discovery of a 17-pound (7.7 kg) gold nugget at the Reed Gold Mine in Cabarrus County, NC near Charlotte in 1799 and the discovery of gold during the California Gold Rush of 1849.
McCulloch's Gold Mill, also known as Rock Engine House, North State Mine, is a historic gold mill located near Jamestown, Guilford County, North Carolina.It consists of the ruins of the McCulloch Gold Mill, built of dry laid random ashlar granite construction in 1832.
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Thomas Charles Greenway, relationship if any not found, was a student at St Peter's College 1892–1895 or later, followed by the School of Mines, where he was awarded a Diploma in Metallurgy and Mining in 1902. He worked as chief assayer at the Broken Hill North mine 1904–1906. [33]