Charters Towers Gold Field Charters Towers Gold Mining Archive. [Archive] (Unpublished)
Summary
The Charters Towers Gold Field was discovered in 1871 and sustained a production rate of over 6 tonnes (200 000 ounces) per year for 15 years from 1892 to 1906. The main operating mines were closed by 1918.
The main reef systems strike east-west and include the Brilliant, Day Dawn, Mexican, Queen and Sunburst lode zones, which extend over a strike length of five kilometres and are cut by NNW trending cross veins. A second east-west system, 800 m to the south, comprises the Golden Sunrise, Mary and Clark's Moonstone line of reefs, while a third system 500 m further south, includes the Ruby and Gladstone line of reefs. The most productive ore-bearing lodes (the Day Dawn, Brilliant and Queen) dip to the north beneath the city of Charters Towers.
This archive consists of wage books and tributors books for gold mines, crushing mills and cyanide works in Charters Towers from 1895 to 1924, including Black Jack, Blantyre (Coal), Bonnie Dundee North, Brillant and St George United (+Mill, Cyanide Works and Tributors Books), Brilliant Block (+Mill), Brilliant Central, Carrington's United (+Mill), Clarks Gold, Cumberland United, Day Dawn, Defiance (Mill), Moonstone and St. George, New Queen Cross, Queen Deeps, Rainbow (Mill), Victory (Charters Towers).
For further information see the following archives: Charters Towers Stock Exchange, the Day Dawn Mining Company, Ruby Queen Gold Mining Company, Don Johnson, Ravenswood Mining Warden's Office, Venus Battery, Great Northern Freehold Tin Mining Co. Ltd, Francis Henry Bauer, and Charles Overend Garbutt [see Related URLs].
List of this archive's contents
Additional Information
Special Collection items may be used on the Library premises by visiting the appropriate Reading Rooms during opening hours. Digital copies of selected items from this Archive will be made available through the repository as copyright or other restrictions allow.
The Charters Towers Albums are located in the NQ Photographic Collection.
References
Related publications held in the NQ Collection at James Cook University Library:
Jack, R.L. (1897). The Charters Towers gold field: With notes on the yield of the various mines. Brisbane, Australia: Government Printer.
Charters Towers (Qld.) Council. (1971). Charters Towers centenary 1872-1972. Charters Towers, Australia: Charters Towers City Council.
Kennedy, K.H. (Ed.). (1980). Readings in north Queensland mining history (Vols. 1-2). Townsville, Australia: James Cook University of North Queensland, History Department.
Bell, P. (1987). Gold, Iron and Steam: The industrial archaeology of the Palmer goldfield. Townsville, Australia: History Department, James Cook University.
Johnson, D.H. (1992). The Venus Battery and Millchester. Townsville, Australia: D.H. Johnson.
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