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A small timber headframe or windlass stands in a gully under the Middleback scarp, with one distant figure. The History Trust record dates this glass negative “circa 1822”, which cannot be right. It belongs to the same Vaughan series as the ca.1905 Iron Knob hill (GN01825). Use it as an early surface working on the range that later supplied Whyalla, and say the 1822 date is a catalogue error.
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-32.7400, 137.1600
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Middleback Ranges, Iron Knob, South Australia
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1905
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Early surface plant, Middleback Ranges at Iron Knob, circa 1905
Early surface plant, Middleback Ranges at Iron Knob
1905 • Middleback Ranges, Iron Knob, South Australia
Explore the Early surface plant, Middleback Ranges at Iron Knob, South Australia. A rare circa 1905 view of industrial mining infrastructure in a rocky gully.
A small timber headframe or windlass stands in a gully under the Middleback scarp, with one distant figure. The History Trust record dates this glass negative “circa 1822”, which cannot be right. It belongs to the same Vaughan series as the ca.1905 Iron Knob hill (GN01825). Use it as an early surface working on the range that later supplied Whyalla, and say the 1822 date is a catalogue error.
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