Cancer incidence and soil arsenic exposure in a historical gold mining area in Victoria, Australia : A geospatial analysis
- Authors: Pearce, Dora , Dowling, Kim , Sim, Malcolm
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology Vol. 22, no. 3 (2012), p. 248-257
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- Description: Soil and mine waste around historical gold mining sites may have elevated arsenic concentrations. Recent evidence suggests some systemic arsenic absorption by residents in the goldfields region of Victoria, Australia. Victorian Cancer Registry and geochemical data were accessed for an ecological geographical correlation study, 1984-2003. Spatial empirical Bayes smoothing was applied when estimating standardised incidence ratios (SIRs) for cancers in 61 statistical local areas. The derived soil arsenic exposure metric ranged from 1.4 to 1857 mg/kg. Spatial autoregressive modelling detected increases in smoothed SIRs for all cancers of 0.05 (95% confidence interval (CI), 0.02-0.08) and 0.04 (0.01-0.07) per 2.7-fold increase in the natural log-transformed exposure metric for males and females, respectively, in more socioeconomically disadvantaged areas; for melanoma in males (0.05 (0.01-0.08) adjusted for disadvantage) and females (0.05 (0.02-0.09) in disadvantaged areas). Excess risks were estimated for all cancers (relative risk 1.21 (95% CI, 1.15-1.27) and 1.08 (1.03-1.14)), and melanoma (1.52 (1.25-1.85) and 1.29 (1.08-1.55)), for males and females, respectively, in disadvantaged areas in the highest quintile of the exposure metric relative to the lowest. Our findings suggest small but significant increases in past cancer risk associated with increasing soil arsenic in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas and demonstrate the robustness of this geospatial approach. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology advance online publication, 21 March 2012.
Sojourners or a new diaspora? Economic implications of the movement of Chinese miners to the south-west Pacific goldfields
- Authors: Reeves, Keir
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 50, no. 2 (2010), p. 178-192
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- Description: Chinese gold seekers were the largest non-British group on the goldfields of Australasia and constituted the largest nationality on some diggings. In considering the movement of Chinese miners to and throughout the goldfields colonies of the southwest Pacific, this articles argues there existed a more complex pattern of migration than that suggested by the sojourner model of arrival, brief stay and departure. It examines the links between migration patterns and economic activity, and argues that economic history perspectives complement the insights offered by recent social and cultural history in the field.
Alluvial mining [picture].
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: Two miners, with a horse, are digging gravel in the bed of a river. Shallow sinking involved digging a shallow shaft through the alluvial gravels, and then washing for the gold. More mining operations are further along the river and a dwelling is on the cleared hillside.
- Description: Copyright: Centre for Gippsland Studies, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: The Walhalla story - POT 27
- Description: 24-Nov-92
Puddling for gold [picture].
- Authors: Carlyon, Margaret.
- Date: 1962
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: Puddling was a method of stirring washdirt in a large tub and occasionally pouring away the water. Sometimes troughs were formed in the ground. The gold was left in the bottom for final separation. A man is washing dirt with a pan in a creek in 1962.
- Description: Copyright: Centre for Gippsland Studies, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: The Walhalla story - POT 27
- Description: 11-Dec-91
Alluvial mining [picture].
- Authors: Carlyon, Margaret.
- Date: 1962
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: Shallow sinking involved putting a shallow shaft through the alluvial gravels and then washing for the gold. A man is washing dirt with a pan in a creek in 1962.
- Description: Copyright: Centre for Gippsland Studies, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: The Walhalla story - POT 27
- Description: 24-Nov-92
Victoria: mining districts, mining divisions & the gold fields
- Date: 1869
- Type: Map
- Relation: Centre for Gippsland Studies Maps
- Full Text: false
- Description: Original format: 76 x 49 cm.
- Description: Scale: 2 inches to 25 miles
- Description: Rev. edition. First published 1866
New map of Gipps land: constructed from the most authentic government and private surveys and comprising all the recently discovered gold fields
- Authors: Lidgate, John
- Date: 1864
- Type: Map
- Relation: Centre for Gippsland Studies Maps
- Full Text: false
- Description: Original format: 23 x 28 cm.
- Description: Scale: 1 inch to 6 miles
- Description: Photograph of map showing gold fields, tracks and settlements throughout Gippsland.
Map of the eastern portion of the state of Victoria: showing mining tracks cut by the Department of Mines
- Date: 1909
- Type: Map
- Relation: Centre for Gippsland Studies Maps
- Full Text: false
- Description: Original format: 81 x 57 cm.
- Description: Scale: 1 inch to 8 miles
- Description: Map showing roads and tracks to gold fields and the location of accommodationhouses.
Sketch geological map of Gipps Land (sheet no.1)
- Date: 1875
- Type: Map
- Relation: Centre for Gippsland Studies Maps
- Full Text: false
- Description: Original format: 88 x 103 cm.
- Description: Scale: 1 inch to 2 miles
- Description: Geological map of south, west and central Gippsland also showing settlements, tracks, gold workings, and location of coal and tin.
- Description: In four pieces. Attached to back: Geological sketch map of portions of the counties of Dargo and Bogong
Waterwheel, Walhalla [picture].
- Date: 1885-1895
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: In the foreground is a waterwheel and flume erected in 1882 by Warne and Guilfoyle to work tailings on the site of the South Cohen Mine. This larger wheel was in operation by 1885. On the other side of the valley is the cemetery.
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: The Walhalla story - POT 29|James, G.F. - Walhalla heyday
- Description: 03-Feb-92
Victoria Mine, Bendoc 10-2-1927 [picture].
- Authors: Victoria Mines Department. East Gippsland
- Date: 1927
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: View of the poppet head and buildings at the Victoria gold mine.
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: 29-Apr-96
Dredge remains, road to Cassilis, March 1930 [picture].
- Authors: Victoria Mines Department. East Gippsland
- Date: 1930
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: View of a derelict bucket dredge which was used to mine gold at Tongio West.
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: 29-Apr-96
Old plant, Cassilis, March 1930 [picture].
- Authors: Victoria Mines Department. East Gippsland
- Date: 1930
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: Two men stand in front of the remains of the buildings of a gold mine.
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: 29-Apr-96
On the Upper Buckland River [picture].
- Authors: Cornell, Frederick
- Date: 1875-1885
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: A number of people are posing by a dam on the upper reaches of the Buckland River, on a footbridge over the river and on a flume built high over the river.
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: The Walhalla story - POT 29|Photograph also at AM0081
- Description: 03-Feb-92
Dargo dredge [picture].
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: The large wooden dredge floats in its pool. Four men are paddling a dinghy named The Saucy Kate.
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: Crooked River and Dargo gold dredging - POT 61
- Description: 03-Nov-93
Victoria Mine, Bendoc 9-2-1927 [picture].
- Authors: Victoria Mines Department. East Gippsland
- Date: 1927
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: Two men and a car are in front of the poppet head and buildings of the Victoria gold mine.
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: 29-Apr-96
Gold dredge, Crooked River [picture].
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: Crooked River and Dargo gold dredging - POT 61
- Description: 03-Nov-93
Dredge at Dargo [picture].
- Date: 1900-1910
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: A dredge was built at Dargo to dredge the river for gold in the early nineteenth century. The machinery is fitted to the dredge floor and the wooden framework nearly finished.
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: Crooked River and Dargo River gold dredging - POT 61|Christie, R. - Victoria`s forgotten goldfield
- Description: 22-Jun-93
Cemetery, Walhalla [picture].
- Authors: Lee, William Harrison
- Date: 1885-1910
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: In the foreground is a waterwheel and flume erected in 1882 by Warne and Guilfoyle to work tailings on the site of the South Cohen Mine. This larger wheel was in operation by 1885. On the other side of the valley is the cemetery.
- Description: Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: The Walhalla story - POT 29|James, G.F. - Walhalla heyday
- Description: 03-Feb-92
Panning for gold [picture].
- Authors: Carlyon, Margaret.
- Date: 1962
- Type: Still Image
- Full Text: false
- Description: A man is using a dish to wash for gold in a creek in 1962.
- Description: Copyright: Centre for Gippsland Studies, Federation University Australia.
- Description: Record generated from title list.
- Description: The Walhalla story - POT 27
- Description: 11-Dec-91