I’m staying at the RACV Goldfields Resort. Great grandparents came from the goldfields. Some left Ballarat about this time for Zion in Tasmania in the 1880’s. My mother born in 1910 used to talk about “black lung” a disease that killed many deep shaft divers. Cheers Pete B Love the mining history. Yours is the most insightful I have sean. Thank you so much.
Well researched , presented and narrated in my humble opinion. Hello from remote rural NSW off grid here, opal miner so I find your detailed explanations of these old mines quite fascinating.
Hi Michelle, you have outdone yourself yet again with this video. Watching the video on my phone really doesn't do it justice. Well, I guess that I am the one missing out there? 😮 I would just like to add my Thank You to the unnamed Private Owners of the mine site for allowing you access to film and explore the disused site. Everyone benefits from such a well documented video like this. Finding the relevant historical photos was just icing on the cake 🎂! I really don't know how you are going to manage to top this video? Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Hi Mark, thanks I’m glad you liked the video 🙂⚒ this one was very interesting to make, I’m very grateful to have been allowed access to the site. Cheers 🙂
Another gem by a well spoken articulate narrator. Thanks for your hard work producing these videos. You are the jewel in the crown of Victoria’s golden history. Thanks.
Beautiful history thank you so much for having an obvious genuine love for this beautiful nation, and the history that helped to build a highly successful nation. ❤️🇦🇺👍
Wow! well done without a doubt your best video yet. The photos and explanation exceed anything I've seen on the subject of deep lead mining. You kept it simple and easy to visualise. I thought I'd seen all the mines in central Vic but you surprised me on this one. congratulations on getting permission from owner of the land. Even my geology course didn't have that one listed. by the way the washed stcalled
I love learning about geological diversity and mineral deposits. It would be so cool if someday a invention could be created that helps us find mineral deposits. We have certain methods but it would be insane if a form of LIDAR or ground sensors could help direct prospectors to good spots to start working. Obviously just day dreaming about a sci-fi style invention lol
@@YuckFoutube-e1z Three days, geeze you're being a bit generous. Mind you, back in the 80s when I was doing my Carpentry Apprenticeship, we had a Builder's Labourer start at 7.30am, we sent him to go get the Morning Teas and he never came back! 😂 I can do a really funny skit of the way that the Leading Hand was stressing out while waiting for the B.L. to return. We worked out the money he collected roughly equalled what he was owed in pay. The boss reimbursed us our smoko money. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks people just don't realise what is all around them . My great great has a rich history of gold at Bendigo and surrounding goldmines . I love learning all this amazing history thanks xx
Where is it? That should be the very first information provided; what area, location & pinpointed on a map of Australia. Great concept, but I had to leave the video to find out.
Hey Nic .. sadly, in my opinion, giving the exact location is equal to putting up a bright beacon to attract all those boofheads that eventually destroy things for others. The narrator makes it clear this is on private property .. but many morons don't respect that. A sign of the times!
G'day Michelle, thanks for the history of the mine and the research carried out, that area of Victoria is fantastic for those that love historical displays left over for the actual Gold rush, l back to work Monday and will be in the field most of Summer test mine sites, might see you around, cheers mate, Neil 🤠. PS still won't get lost with that Red hair.
Please see Stan bone from St Andrews and share his, and his families story of the amazing work they did opening mines and gullies all around the Queenstown goldfields. He's getting on now and I don't think he has many years left.
I agree I met Stan maybe a decade ago up at his mine he was fixing the gate someone had pushed over. Such a wealth of knowledge in that bloke. I must’ve stood there for three hours at least listening to him. I think I was 29 then now 44 ! Time flys
@@Castlemaine your lucky to have met him, would have been eye opening. My mate has met people who have spoken of him rather kindly. I unfortunately only know him from my research on the area he worked. Hopefully Michelle can find the time before it's too late. 🤞
@@Straya501 sorry mate, in Vic. Gold was first discovered in warrandyte. Queenstown was a part of the same area and is now known as St Andrews. It is the closest goldfield to the city of Melbourne.
Excellent video. @ 5:30 if my eyesight isn’t dodgy but isn’t that the rear of a horse in the mine? It looks shadowy potentially because in low light in those days cameras had to open their apertures for some time so anything alive and moving became blurry.
Saw that also could have been what was called a pit pony, they where used to pull the ore carts, could be wrong though if the mine had steam it may have been passed the time of pit ponies and the scale is sorta off. . Sad part is they where taken into the mine worked , kept in corrals and given feed and water but never again saw the light of day , different times back then.
@@TheSilmarillianPretty much how they treat mine equipment and vehicles these days! Anything not human that goes down into a mine, never gets to see the light of day again. When it gets beyond repair, it is just parked up in a disused part of the mine. 😢 Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880 Thanks Mark ,Gary here L/ridge NSW humble opal miner here and sadly not so much here because we improvise and repair but its common in the big mining companies that when something is fubar they don't care its operating costs and a tax right off, not much has changed it would seem. I guess. I have being a miner studied a few things and the pit ponies used mainly in the UK and Europe as I said was a different time and place.
I thought so too, I swear that’s a horse (spent way too long looking at that horse’s rear end trying to tell for sure 🤣) but as you say, the photo taken in low light has blurred it so it’s hard to say
Very interesting again. Paul. I'm wondering if there is a way to find out if my family came through the Gold fields back in 1866, they came out from Tipperary, landed in Geelong, and made their way here. Paul
So does that mean that you know what Sailing Ship they arrived on? Otherwise you can check passenger manifests at the Immigration Museum on Flinders Street, Melbourne CBD. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
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I don't know either way, but in Victoria in the 1800s, a LOT of foreign names were Anglicised or just accidentally mispronounced. Even English names were pronounced differently, such as the volcanic Mt Napier in the Western District which the locals pronounce Nap-pier rather than the more common Nay-pee-are. I usually try to pronounce names the way the locals do.
@@Dave_SissonDavid Sisson, do we know each other from YLM, back in the 90s? Does 104 Exhibition mean anything to you? Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Haha I get this comment often. I’ve pronounced it this way all my life 😆 I know lots of locals who call it “Tie-more” and only one or two who call it “Tee-more”.
I've learnt more from you than anywhere else, absolute legend ❤
Thanks 🙂⚒
I’m staying at the RACV Goldfields Resort.
Great grandparents came from the goldfields.
Some left Ballarat about this time for Zion in Tasmania in the 1880’s.
My mother born in 1910 used to talk about “black lung” a disease that killed many deep shaft divers.
Cheers
Pete B
Love the mining history.
Yours is the most insightful I have sean.
Thank you so much.
Well researched , presented and narrated in my humble opinion. Hello from remote rural NSW off grid here, opal miner so I find your detailed explanations of these old mines quite fascinating.
How goes the Opal mining bizz?
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks, much appreciated 🙂
Hi Michelle, you have outdone yourself yet again with this video. Watching the video on my phone really doesn't do it justice. Well, I guess that I am the one missing out there? 😮
I would just like to add my Thank You to the unnamed Private Owners of the mine site for allowing you access to film and explore the disused site. Everyone benefits from such a well documented video like this.
Finding the relevant historical photos was just icing on the cake 🎂!
I really don't know how you are going to manage to top this video?
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Hi Mark, thanks I’m glad you liked the video 🙂⚒ this one was very interesting to make, I’m very grateful to have been allowed access to the site. Cheers 🙂
All your videos are fantastic, thank you very much for producing them.
Thanks so much 🙂⚒📸
Another gem by a well spoken articulate narrator. Thanks for your hard work producing these videos. You are the jewel in the crown of Victoria’s golden history. Thanks.
Thank you 🙂
One of your best.
Photos, overlays and description were awesome ❤
Thanks 🙂
Another great look back Michelle another good video.
Cheers
Tony
Thanks Tony 🙂⚒
Great Documentary ! Would love to see something about the Chiltern deep lead mines !
Another awesome show👍
Thanks! 🙂⚒
Thanks for another awesome video Michelle. Always so interesting and informative
Thanks, glad you liked the video 🙂
Great work again, informative and beautiful camera work 👍😄
Thank you so much 🙂
Another great video on the Victorian goldfields, your attention to detail is amazing. Thank you for the fantastic history lesson. ❤it 😊
Thanks 🙂⚒
I’m seeing so many features now that I never really understood, cheers
Well done. Well done. Well done.
Congratulations.
Another great presentation of our history 👏
Another great video. Fantastic drone footage too.
Brilliant video - so well done! :-)
Beautiful history thank you so much for having an obvious genuine love for this beautiful nation, and the history that helped to build a highly successful nation. ❤️🇦🇺👍
Thanks, yes I absolutely love it 🙂⚒🌿📸
Thanks Michelle, great video.
Cheers 🙂⚒
Excellent video, love exploring the goldfields
Wow! well done without a doubt your best video yet. The photos and explanation exceed anything I've seen on the subject of deep lead mining. You kept it simple and easy to visualise. I thought I'd seen all the mines in central Vic but you surprised me on this one. congratulations on getting permission from owner of the land. Even my geology course didn't have that one listed. by the way the washed stcalled
Well done Michelle top video that history is brilliant
Thank you 🙂
Such a wonderful voice
Yes. She could make a fortune reading bedtime stories on Audible.
Thanks guys, I’ve been trying hard to improve the narration 🙂
I love learning about geological diversity and mineral deposits. It would be so cool if someday a invention could be created that helps us find mineral deposits. We have certain methods but it would be insane if a form of LIDAR or ground sensors could help direct prospectors to good spots to start working. Obviously just day dreaming about a sci-fi style invention lol
Another awesome video, thank you. You’re a superstar.
Good value & informative as Always. Thank you.
Thank you 🙂
I am still Amazed how they got that 60ton beam for the Cornish Pump up onto the pump house top !
Just found your channel. That was great. Love seeing the old photos. Looks like I have a bit of catching up to do.
Hard workers back then, cheers
Young men would not last more than 3 days now.
@@YuckFoutube-e1z Three days, geeze you're being a bit generous. Mind you, back in the 80s when I was doing my Carpentry Apprenticeship, we had a Builder's Labourer start at 7.30am, we sent him to go get the Morning Teas and he never came back! 😂 I can do a really funny skit of the way that the Leading Hand was stressing out while waiting for the B.L. to return.
We worked out the money he collected roughly equalled what he was owed in pay. The boss reimbursed us our smoko money.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
It’s crazy how your channel is blowing up but mine never did. Congrats
Geez, I wonder why ;-)
Different formats.
Michelle focuses on the mining history aspect, not gold detecting.
Great work Michelle 👍
Thanks 🙂
Thanks again great vid😊
Thanks people just don't realise what is all around them . My great great has a rich history of gold at Bendigo and surrounding goldmines . I love learning all this amazing history thanks xx
Awesome 🙂⚒ thanks!
That’s for these videos! They are very interesting and great addition to how the Americans mined! Very similar!
Excellent thanks
Thanks
Thank you! Much appreciated 🙂🖤
Impressive operation in it's day.
Definitely!
Excellent video, thankyou. You look nothing like I thought you did, lol.
Haha, thanks, glad you liked the video 🙂
I really like how you narrate your stories,I’m fascinated with old gold diggers.I reckon I call fall asleep listening to you ,great job New Zealand 🇳🇿
Thank you 🙂
Awesome
🇦🇺 bundamba Australia 🇦🇺 nice 2 have a pretty face telling our history.. keep at it girl & God bless... T.....from bundamba Australia 🇦🇺 4304
Thank you 🙂
Your voice shows your soul.
Not common these days.
Thanks 🙂
Nice tour. What about in the Landsborough area? Still opportunities for gold there?
Where is it? That should be the very first information provided; what area, location & pinpointed on a map of Australia. Great concept, but I had to leave the video to find out.
Hey Nic .. sadly, in my opinion, giving the exact location is equal to putting up a bright beacon to attract all those boofheads that eventually destroy things for others. The narrator makes it clear this is on private property .. but many morons don't respect that. A sign of the times!
G'day Michelle, thanks for the history of the mine and the research carried out, that area of Victoria is fantastic for those that love historical displays left over for the actual Gold rush, l back to work Monday and will be in the field most of Summer test mine sites, might see you around, cheers mate, Neil 🤠. PS still won't get lost with that Red hair.
Thanks 🙂 Yes, might see you around! Your work sounds very interesting. 🙂⚒ cheers
Do you have any info on the last mine to operate in Moyston ?
Please see Stan bone from St Andrews and share his, and his families story of the amazing work they did opening mines and gullies all around the Queenstown goldfields.
He's getting on now and I don't think he has many years left.
I agree I met Stan maybe a decade ago up at his mine he was fixing the gate someone had pushed over.
Such a wealth of knowledge in that bloke. I must’ve stood there for three hours at least listening to him.
I think I was 29 then now 44 ! Time flys
@@Castlemaine your lucky to have met him, would have been eye opening. My mate has met people who have spoken of him rather kindly. I unfortunately only know him from my research on the area he worked. Hopefully Michelle can find the time before it's too late. 🤞
Queenstown in tazy west?
Sounds very interesting! Thanks! 🙂
@@Straya501 sorry mate, in Vic.
Gold was first discovered in warrandyte. Queenstown was a part of the same area and is now known as St Andrews. It is the closest goldfield to the city of Melbourne.
Excellent video. @ 5:30 if my eyesight isn’t dodgy but isn’t that the rear of a horse in the mine? It looks shadowy potentially because in low light in those days cameras had to open their apertures for some time so anything alive and moving became blurry.
Saw that also could have been what was called a pit pony, they where used to pull the ore carts, could be wrong though if the mine had steam it may have been passed the time of pit ponies and the scale is sorta off. . Sad part is they where taken into the mine worked , kept in corrals and given feed and water but never again saw the light of day , different times back then.
@@TheSilmarillianPretty much how they treat mine equipment and vehicles these days! Anything not human that goes down into a mine, never gets to see the light of day again. When it gets beyond repair, it is just parked up in a disused part of the mine. 😢
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880 Thanks Mark ,Gary here L/ridge NSW humble opal miner here and sadly not so much here because we improvise and repair but its common in the big mining companies that when something is fubar they don't care its operating costs and a tax right off, not much has changed it would seem. I guess. I have being a miner studied a few things and the pit ponies used mainly in the UK and Europe as I said was a different time and place.
I thought so too, I swear that’s a horse (spent way too long looking at that horse’s rear end trying to tell for sure 🤣) but as you say, the photo taken in low light has blurred it so it’s hard to say
i have been prospecting and taking pictures of most of the golden triangle even omeo in the south
thanks
Very interesting again. Paul. I'm wondering if there is a way to find out if my family came through the Gold fields back in 1866, they came out from Tipperary, landed in Geelong, and made their way here. Paul
So does that mean that you know what Sailing Ship they arrived on? Otherwise you can check passenger manifests at the Immigration Museum on Flinders Street, Melbourne CBD.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880 thanks for your reply Mark maybe I could try that I don't know the name of the ship, must have been a quiet a few though. Paul
Thanks Paul! Local historical societies are very helpful when it comes to family history for the area, might be a good place to try 🙂 cheers!
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Love your vids, Can you please do a vide on the Madam Berry mines in Smeaton/Lawrence/Allendale area? cheers
There’s one in the works, part of a longer documentary. But it’s a long term project, still it’s a while away ⚒📸🙂 those mines are amazing
Hey gorgeous, any new content on its way?
Isn’t it ‘Tee-mor’ (Timor)as in the island nation just to the north of Australia - that’s how I’ve always pronounced it and I’ve never been corrected.
I don't know either way, but in Victoria in the 1800s, a LOT of foreign names were Anglicised or just accidentally mispronounced. Even English names were pronounced differently, such as the volcanic Mt Napier in the Western District which the locals pronounce Nap-pier rather than the more common Nay-pee-are. I usually try to pronounce names the way the locals do.
@@Dave_SissonDavid Sisson, do we know each other from YLM, back in the 90s?
Does 104 Exhibition mean anything to you?
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
@@markfryer9880 Yep, that was a long time ago. These days my hobbies are mostly writing mountain history and running tours.
Haha I get this comment often. I’ve pronounced it this way all my life 😆 I know lots of locals who call it “Tie-more” and only one or two who call it “Tee-more”.
All this talk about shafts getting me worked up
Wow you’re a beautiful lady! Sexy voice! Since I’m American. Love your accent!