Series:
Mt Bischoff Papers
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1880
End Date:
13 Nov 1963
Creating Agency:
| Unidentified Creating Agency (XX1) |
How to Use:
This series includes items from a private collection. The authors of the papers have not been traced. As copyright may still be in force, Tasmanian Archives recommends a risk based approach be taken to any reproduction. The photographs are out of copyright. Please acknowledge, Tasmanian Archives, Libraries Tasmania.
Series notes:
Papers and photographs. The papers relate to investigations by The Zinc Corporation Limited company into the viability of the Mt Bischoff Mine. This small cache of papers were in the possession of a former employee of Hellyer mine Que River and Aberfoyle Ltd. Also includes two annotated copies of the Mt Bischoff map created by the Mines Branch, Lands and Surveys Department, July 1947. The annotations show different prospecting licence holders. The Zinc Corporation's (later 'Consolidated Zinc') options in the Mt Bischoff Mine expired in 1950. The set of six black and white photographs depict mining operations in the 1880s. While five of the photographs have been labelled 'Mt Bischoff Mine', it is possible that they are in fact images of the Moina Shepherd and Murphy Mine.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Single folder; six photographs
Information Sources:
Encyclopedia of Australian Science (6/3/2020)
Items: