This is a black-and-white photograph showing five miners prospecting for alluvial gold on the banks of the Mulgrave River in Queensland. Two of the men hold shovels and stand by a sluice, two others pan for gold and the fifth rests on a wooden wheelbarrow. Several other mining implements are in evidence - a pan, pick, shovel and sluice. The men have rolled up their shirt sleeves and, in some cases, trousers and several are working barefoot. The River is narrow, with rock-strewn banks crowded with thick vegetation.
Credits | Reproduced courtesy of State Library of Queensland
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Creator | Unidentified |
Identifiers | State Library of Queensland image number 70216
TLF resource R7997 |
Source | State Library of Queensland, http://www.slq.qld.gov.au |