Prospecting Collection

Derrick Floor of an oil rig, Iran
Derrick Floor of an oil drilling rig, Iran

Share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields
A share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields Limited, representing 35 shares. Gold deposits were first discovered along the Yukon River in Canada in 1896, and this triggered off a gold rush

Peru - Gold Prospecting
Peru. - Prospecting for gold

Oil Field, Humble, Texas nr Houston USA - Mule-pulled tanker. Date: 1907

Prospector in Death Valley, California, USA
Prospector at work in Death Valley, California, USA. Date: circa 1930

J. B Robinson, South African prospector
J B Robinson, South African prospector for gold and diamonds, as a young man in a pith helmet

Prospectors camp at Pegleg and Sailors Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Date: 1853

Panning for gold at Thompsons Point, on the River Turon in New South Wales, Australia. Date: 1853

Gold Dredging at Kyebi (Kibi), Ghana, West Africa Date: circa 1912

Lord Redesdale and Pamela Mitford
Lord Redesdale and his daughter Pamela Mitford preparing to depart to Canada to go gold prospecting in Northern Ontario. Date: 16th July 1930

Klondike / Leaving Nome
Alaska miners leave Nome for Seattle as winter starts to close in and prospecting becomes impossible

Scenes from the Australian gold rush

Gold Escort leaving for Melbourne, Australia
The Gold Escort leaving Castlemaine Camp in Victoria, Australia, for Melbourne

Illustrated London News cover - the Diamond Diggers
Front cover of The Illustrated London News showing two diamond diggers in South Africa, in the valley of the Vaal river, Orange Free State

Electrical gold finder
Experiments with an electrical device to find gold underground. Date: 1892

Prospectors in Australia rejoice at finding gold at last. Date: 1850s

Gold mining camp in America
A mining camp on a North-west American river Date: circa 1860s

Gold prospectors on the way to Coolgardie, Australia
Gold prospectors on the hundred-mile journey to Coolgardie in Western Australia, some with carts, others pushing wheelbarrows. Date: 1850s

The Burra Burra copper-mine in South Australia, showing the surface operations. 1848

Gold rush in New South Wales, Australia
Loading a horse with necessities for a months encampment at the gold digging site, Ophir, near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. Date: 1851

Digging for gold in British Guiana (now Guyana). Placer washing as carried out by the tributor or Port Knocker. Date: circa 1910s

Skaguay, Alaska, USA
Skaguay (Skagway), Alaska, USA Date: circa 1902

Gold Prospecting party testing the reef, South Africa Date: 1904

Southern Africa - Gold Prospecting
Working underground in a South African goldmine - using a machine drill Date: 1907

Canada - Typical Mining Scene
British Columbia, Canada - Typical Mining Scene showing two prospectors blowing black sand from placer gold. The word placer refers to the alluvial deposits in modern or ancient stream beds

Gold prospectors at Coolgardie, Western Australia
Gold prospectors at Coolgardie in Western Australia -- the streets were filled with swagger and riot. Date: 1850s

Camp in the Mountains of Iran
A temporary camp in the mountains of Iran, close to oil exploration works undertaken in the early 1920s by British Petroleum

Gas Separators - Middle Eastern Oil Field Date: circa 1925

The debatable Land in British Guiana. A Gold Prospecting Par
Illustration showing a shanty town of gold propectors, out for the main chance, a British flag in the foreground

German Dowser
Ein Ruthen Ganger - a German dowser prospecting for metals

America. Montana miners
Miners prospecting for gold in Fort Laramie, USA

Digging for diamonds in South Africa
People digging for diamonds in South Africa

Gold prospectors and families in camp, Australia
Prospectors and their families panning for gold in Australia

Gold prospectors panning in Australia
Prospectors panning for gold in Australia

Gold prospector panning in Australia
A gold prospector raising a bit of colour -- panning for gold in Australia

Panning for gold on the River Turon, Australia
Panning for gold at Sheep Station Point, on the River Turon in New South Wales, Australia

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