VPRS 16163 Historic Mine and Infrastructure Plans

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This series is a collection of plans and drawings of mines and infrastructure projects in hard copy format. The collection comprises plans generated by Geological Survey/Mines Department activities or acquired from outside workers in the geological and mine related fields. They are either preparatory (i.e. what geology was likely to be found), or construction (what geology was found). The collection, commonly referred to as Historic Mining Plans contains plans and sections prepared from survey of mine workings, and other types of plans containing the following information:
- Geology - both at a mine and regional scale
- Drilling -e.g. bore location plans and geological sections through boreholes
- Geochemistry
- Geophysics
- Mining Titles
- Topography
- Locations of features such as shallow and deep leads, areas of alluvial workings, tailings dumps, quartz reefs, mine shafts, mine plants, mine subsidence areas
- Cadastral survey and traverse lines
- Mineral localities
- Mineral resource areas.

This series documented the survey and mapping activities of the Department.