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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.
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Crooked River and Dargo River gold dredging - POT 61|Christie, R. - Victoria`s forgotten goldfield
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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.
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Crooked River and Dargo River gold dredging - POT 61|Christie, R. - Victoria`s forgotten goldfield
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Walhalla story - POT 29|Photograph also at AM0081
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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.
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The Walhalla story - POT 29|Photograph also at AM0081
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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.
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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.
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Copyright: Centre for Gippsland Studies, Federation University Australia.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Walhalla story - POT 29|James, G.F. - Walhalla heyday
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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.
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The Walhalla story - POT 29|James, G.F. - Walhalla heyday
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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.
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The Walhalla story - POT 29|James, G.F. - Walhalla heyday
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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.
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The Walhalla story - POT 29|James, G.F. - Walhalla heyday