The Noel Butlin Archives Centre holds records of a number of companies
involved in gold mining. Some examples of company records are:
Adelaide Steamship Company Ltd
Outwards
Correspondence relating to private freighting accounts & syndicates of J
Turnbull (Secretary and General Manager), 1888-1892 (N46/566)
Australian
Agricultural Company
Letters to General Superintendent regarding potential gold deposits, 1853-1856
(1/46/1)
Mineral
prospecting papers including letters, tracings and reports in connection with
prospecting in the Port Stephens district, 1855-1904 (1/64/4)
Clarke and Co
(Melbourne)
Series of maps and plans of various goldfields including
Elder Smith and
Company
Correspondence and related papers between Elder, Smith and Company and Wallaroo
Mining Company, BHP Limited, Hercules Gold and Silver Mining Company, Beer
Sondheimer and Co Ltd, and Wallaroo Phosphate Company relating to the sale and
shipment of concentrates of gold, silver and lead, 1888-1917 (8/66)
Correspondence of TM Owen and other material regarding Balabula Gold Mining
Company, 1932
(67/72)
Correspondence of TM Owen regarding Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, WA,
1927-1932 (67/71)
Correspondence of TM Owen regarding Big Reef Gold Mine, Gundagai, 1932
(67/66)
Correspondence of TM Owen regarding Occidental Gold Mines NL, 1932-1933
(67/62)
Correspondence of TM Owen regarding Main Ridge Gold Mine, 1932 (67/58)
Peel River Land and Mineral Company
Despatches from the early years of the company
documenting initial success in the search for gold followed by the decline in
its value to the company. They include monthly reports of gold licences issued.
1853- 1870 (78/15/1 to 9)
Return books for Peel River Estate, Avon Downs, Currawillinghi and
Moorlands stations consisting of half yearly accounts including licenses issued
at gold fields, 1914-1925 (115/9)
Return books for Peel River Estate, Currawillinghi and Mt Alfred.
Includes half yearly accounts and licenses issued, 1911-1928 (115/10)
Leases, conveyances and contracts; with covering letters and reports
Includes the prospectus and other material relating to the formation of the
Hanging Rock Gold Mining Company, 1887-1888 (121/29)
The records of many
unions and organisations include files about gold miners. The items listed
below are just a sample.
Industrial
Court Transcripts Gold and Metalliferous Mining Industry, 1917 (N117/622-624)
Minutes of the
Amalgamated Miners Association, Wrightville, Ganbelego Branch. Includes minutes
of the Truckers & Boodlers of Mt Boppy Goldmine, 1910 (N117/1467)
Federated Engine
Drivers’ and Fireman’s Association of
Tasmanian Goldmines, transcript of proceedings in the Commonwealth Conciliation
and
Holdway-McMahon -
Mt Carrington Goldmines (Drake Operation), 1988 (N129/1182)
PRINTED MATERIAL
Harry Edmund
Holland Collection
Pease,
Edward R Gold and State Banking, a study
in the economics of monopoly
Fitzherbert, PB, The crisis:
Fitzherbert, PS, The dawn of the new outlook
Mining Act, also
amending Acts with Regulations thereunder, 9th edition, Sydney Government
Printer, 1894 (P5/1/887)
Moloney, Dan, The history of Addson’s Flat goldfields Westport,
New Zealand, Westport News, 1923 (P5/1/818)
Miscellaneous
Pamphlet Collection
From Tent to
Parliament: the life of Peter Lalor and his coadjutors, and history of the
Lenin,
VI The Importance of Gold Now and After
the Victory of Socialism,
Australian Agricultural Company,
Guide to the
Northern Gold Fields by an Old Bushman, Sydney, Woolcott &
Clarke, 1856 (78/1/25)
Graziers Association of
Elder, Smith and
Company
Report on the
Les Heathcote
Collection
Sydney,
Intercolonial Investment Co, 1898 (the Kalgoorlie Field) (P23/47/15)
Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of
Russell, FAA, History of the gold standard,
Banking – A Collection of Printed Material
Davidson, AC, The Gold Standard in