Summary

This photograph depicts a quartz hopper rail line leading to the hopper receiver and a water tank at a gold mining battery. The large battery housing and tank are constructed of corrugated iron while the rail line and receiver are constructed of timber. The building has gutters attached which are connected to the water tank to allow collection of rainwater. The tank, mounted on a low timber platform, also has a tap fitted to the base. Ore is discernible in the hopper receiver. The rail line is raised upon a rock foundation wall and timber poles. Outside the battery is a reel of steel cable and two sets of ore cart wheels.

The photographs in this collection were taken by the Reverend Frederic Charles Hall (1878-1926) during the period 1902-1909 when he was the Anglican Curate appointed to Georgetown in North Queensland. Hall's foremost hobby was photography. He used both a half-plate camera with tripod made by J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham and a quarter-plate Austral No. 3 made by the Australian company, Baker & Rouse. Glass negatives from Ilford and Austral were used; developing was done by the photographer himself and printing by exposure to sunlight.