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Australasian Institute Of Mining And Metallurgy
The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) provides services to professionals engaged in all facets of the global minerals sector and is based in Carlton, Victoria, Australia. History The Institute had its genesis in 1893 with the formation in Adelaide of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers drawing its inspiration from the success of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Report of the first annual conference includes contents of Sir Henry's speech as read by Professor Tate at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries. and some impetus from the Mine Managers Association of Broken Hill. Office-holders were equally from South Australia and "The Hill", where the Institute established its headquarters. This approach to the foundation of a federal organization was welcomed in mining districts of other Australian colonies. and branches were formed in Broken Hill, the Thames Goldfield (New Zealand), Ballarat, and elsewhere. Succeeding annua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlton, Victoria
Carlton is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, three kilometres north of the Melbourne central business district within the city of Melbourne local government area. Carlton recorded a population of 16,055 at the 2021 census. Immediately adjoining the CBD, Carlton is known nationwide for its Little Italy precinct centred on Lygon Street, for its preponderance of 19th-century Victorian architecture and its garden squares including the Carlton Gardens, the latter being the location of the Royal Exhibition Building, one of Australia's few man-made sites with World Heritage status. Due to its proximity to the University of Melbourne, the CBD campus of RMIT University and the Fitzroy campus of Australian Catholic University, Carlton is also home to one of the highest concentrations of university students in Australia. History Carlton was founded in 1851, at the beginning of the Victorian gold rush, with the Carlton Post Office opening on 19 October 1865. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle Herald
The ''Newcastle Herald'' (formerly branded as ''The Herald'') is a local tabloid newspaper published daily, Monday to Saturday, in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is the only local newspaper that serves the greater Hunter Region and Central Coast region six days a week. It is owned by Australian Community Media. Overview The ''Newcastle Herald'' is the Hunter's largest local media organisation, and enjoys a long affinity and reader involvement with the region's residents. It is also well read in Sydney (with readership figures showing a 20% increase in Sydney readership on Saturdays) and interstate, and is usually seen as an accurate record of business and local data for those looking to relocate to the region. The paper features the only classifieds section published six days a week across the region. The ''Newcastle Herald'' employs more than 310 full-time staff, and injects $17 million into the local economy each year. History The ''Newcastle Herald'' had its o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Henry McGowan
Samuel Henry McGowan (c. 1844 – 30 May 1921) was an Australian businessman involved in gold mining ventures in Bendigo, Victoria. History McGowan grew up in Ireland and emigrated to Australia, settling in Bendigo around 1870. He was involved in many mining ventures: as manager South St. Mungo Gold Mining Company in July 1882, and the Old Chum Mining Company. He founded The South Energetic Company in August 1884. He founded Leech's Creek Gold Mining Company in July 1886, the Great Cornish Mining Company 1887 the Lord Hopetoun Gold Mining Company in February 1891, the North Moon Company June 1892, the Bendigo Golden Star Company August 1893, Corinella Consols Company September 1893, New North Prince of Wales Company, September 1893, North Albion Reef Gold Mining Company June 1898, and the Ashley Gold Mining Company August 1898. He was a councillor, Barkly Ward, City of Bendigo 1883–1901 and Mayor for two terms, 1899–1900. He was elected president, Australasian Institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Lidgey
Ernest Lidgey (22 June 1863 – 16 February 1925) was an Australian geologist who conducted important geological surveys of mining areas in Victoria, Australia. History Lidgey was born in Adelaide the son of John Lidgey (1834–1887) and his wife Hanna Lidgey, née Cornish, both immigrants from Redruth, Cornwall, who were married 20 August 1862 at the Friends meeting house, Adelaide. They had another child, Lilian Mary Lidgey, in Norwood on 22 October 1864, before in September 1865 returning to Cornwall. Lidgey was educated in England, returning around 1880 to Victoria, where he was appointed a probationary assistant to Reginald A. F. Murray, Government geologist, who required extra hands to complete the geological survey of the Colony. His tasks included the Mount Wills tin mining district, Ballarat, Malmsbury and Lauriston. In 1897, he was promoted to Assistant Geological Surveyor. Late December that year, he was appointed Government Mining Representative in London, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Montgomery (geologist)
Alexander Montgomery MA (January 1862 – 10 February 1933) was a geologist who held important Government positions in New Zealand, Tasmania and Western Australia. History Montgomery was born at Morningside, Edinburgh, the second son of Alexander Montgomery, previously headmaster of the George Street Normal School, Dunedin, New Zealand. The family travelled to New Zealand in 1865, and Montgomery was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and Otago University School of Mines. He qualified BA at New Zealand University in 1881, and MA with first class honors in chemistry and electricity in 1882, and acted as assistant to James Gow Black, professor of chemistry and metallurgy, in 1881 and 1882. He studied geology at the Otago School of Mines under Professor G. H. F. Ulrich in 1882 and 1883. In late 1883 he joined the New Zealand Public Works Department, under W. N. Blair, CE. From 1883 to 1885 Montgomery was occupied in construction of the East and West Coast Railways and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Bischoff
Mount Bischoff is a mountain and former tin mine in the north-western region of Tasmania, Australia. The mountain is situated adjacent to Savage River National Park, near the town of Waratah. Location and features The mountain was named in the early nineteenth century after the chairman of the Van Diemen's Land Company, James Bischoff. Tin was discovered there in 1871 by James "Philosopher" Smith. Tin mine The first operator of the mine was the Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company, which used a sluice supplied with water from the top of the waterfall in Waratah. In June 1883, the mine installed one of the first hydro-electric generators in Australia, using it to light the offices, workshop and manager's house. The easy ore had all been extracted by 1893, when sluicing was discontinued. Mining continued as an open-cut on the face of the mountain, as well as underground. The manager of the mine from 1907 to 1919 was John Dunlop Millen, who was "credited with the modernisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kooyong, Victoria
Kooyong () is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area. Kooyong recorded a population of 842 at the 2021 census. Kooyong is the second most expensive suburb of Melbourne, with a median house price of $3.585 million. Kooyong takes its name from Kooyong Koot Creek, which was the original name given to Gardiners Creek by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle, in 1837. It is thought that the name derives from an Aboriginal word meaning camp or resting place, or haunt of the wild fowl. It is best known for being the namesake of Kooyong Stadium and Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, neither of which are officially in Kooyong. It borders the suburbs of Hawthorn, Malvern and Toorak. History Kooyong Post Office opened on 18 March 1912. Population In the 2016 census, there were 817 people in Kooyong. 72.2% of people were born in Australia and 80.5% of people spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uriah Dudley
Uriah Dudley FIAME (c. 1852 – 8 February 1909) was a mining engineer, inventor and mine manager in Broken Hill, New South Wales and in Western Australia. He was secretary, Mine Managers Association of Broken Hill from 1890 and general secretary of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy from its foundation in 1893 to 1897. Career Dudley was manager of the Sydney Rockwell syndicate's mine known as "Wright's" in Broken Hill from March 1888 to 1889, when he was employed as manager of the Umberumberka silver-lead mine near Silverton. While there he was an active member of the community, teaching geology, mineralogy, mining, metallurgy and physics at the Silverton Technical School, was elected Mayor of Silverton and appointed to the Silverton licensing court in 1891. That same year he was elected president Silverton Chess Club. Beginning in 1891, Dudley—while manager of the Umberumberka mine at Silverton— John Howell, and others held discussions and meetings at B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Yorke Lyell Brown
Henry Yorke Lyell Brown FGS (23 August 1843 – 22 January 1928) was an Australian geologist. Brown was born at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Richard Brown, also a geologist, and his wife Sibella, née Barrington. He was educated at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and matriculated in 1862. He then studied under T. H. Huxley and John Tyndall at the Royal School of Mines, London, in 1863-64. He came to Australia in 1865 and worked on the Geological Survey of Victoria under Alfred Selwyn until 1869. Brown was government geologist in Western Australia in 1870-72. He discovered the Weld Range, drilled the first artesian bore near Perth, and forecast accurately that the colony's mineral resources would eventually become a main source of its advance. In 1872 he worked in private mining in Victoria and New Zealand and two years later rejoined Selwyn in Canada. Finding the climate too severe, he returned to Australia to work for the New South Wales government in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Tate
Ralph Tate (11 March 1840 – 20 September 1901) was a British-born botanist and geologist, who was later active in Australia. Early life Tate was born at Alnwick in Northumberland, the son of Thomas Turner Tate (1807–1888), a teacher of mathematics and science, and his wife Frances (née Hunter). He was nephew to George Tate (topographer), George Tate (1805–1871), Natural history, naturalist and archaeologist, an active member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. Tate was educated at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham Training College and at the Royal School of Mines. Scientific career In 1861 Tate was appointed teacher of natural science at the Belfast Natural History Society, Philosophical Institution in Belfast. There he studied botany, publishing his ''Flora Belfastiensis'' in 1863, while also investigating the Cretaceous and Triassic rocks of County Antrim, the results of which he presented to the Geological Society of London. In 1864 Tate was appointed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Express And Telegraph
''The Telegraph'' was a newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1862, and merged with '' The Express'' to become ''The Express and Telegraph'', published from 1867 to 1922. History ''The Adelaide Telegraph'' The Adelaide ''Telegraph'' was founded and edited by Frederick Sinnett (c. 1836 – 23 November 1866) and first published by David Gall on 15 August 1862 as an evening daily, independent of the two morning papers '' The Advertiser'' and ''The Register ''The Register'' (often also called El Reg) is a British Technology journalism, technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee (journalist), Mike Magee and John Lettice. The online newspaper's Nameplate_(publishing), masthead Logo, s ...''. ''The Advertiser'', which was first published in 1858, retaliated in 1863 by founding its own afternoon newspaper, ''The Express'', as a competitor to ''The Telegraph''. Ebenezer Ward served as sub-editor 1863 to 1864, when he joined Finniss's Northern Ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ayers
Sir Henry Ayers (now pron. "airs") (1 May 1821 – 11 June 1897) was the eighth Premier of South Australia, serving a record five times between 1863 and 1873. His lasting memorial was in the name Ayers Rock, now better-known as Uluru, which was named in 1873 by the explorer William Gosse. Overview Ayers was born at Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, the son of William Ayers, of the Portsmouth dockyard, and Elizabeth, née Breakes. Educated at the Beneficial Society's School (Portsea) he entered a law office in 1832. Less than a month after his marriage in 1840, he emigrated with his wife, Anne (née Potts), to South Australia, as a carpenter, with free passages. Until 1845, he worked as a law clerk, and was then appointed secretary of the South Australian Mining Association, which owned the copper mine at Burra Burra. Henry Roach was chief Captain, responsible for day-to-day operations, from 1847 to 1867. Within a year the mine employed over 1000 men. For ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
