VPRS 16163 Historic Mine and Infrastructure Plans

Full description

This series comprises a collection of plans of mines and infrastructure projects generated by Geological Survey Victoria (VA 4118) as evidence of activities or evidence acquired from external workers in the geological, minerals, extractive, petroleum and other associated sectors. 

The plans are either preparatory (i.e. what geology was likely to be found), or construction (i.e. what geology was found).  The collection contains plans and sections prepared from survey of mine workings, and other infrastructure 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, landfill sites and mine subsidence areas
• Cadastral survey and traverse lines
• Mineral localities
• Mineral resource areas
• Technical drawings of equipment and office floor plans

The Geological Survey Office Victoria began a systematic survey of Central Victoria and it’s surroundings, leading to an informal map collection termed ‘Quarter Sheets’ found within this series. Using existing cadastral maps as a base, the geologists created large maps with annotations including geological notes, sometimes on the map itself or in the left or right margins. Many of these records are available to access digitally through the Earth Resources Publications website.  

Some common abbreviations found throughout the collection include:

• Bendigo Mines Limited (BML)
• No Liability (NL)
• Map Number (M5)
• Unpublished Report (UR)
• Exploration Licence (EL)
• Country Road Board (CRB)
• Lead (Pb)
• Copper (Cu)
• Molybdenum (Mo)
• Zinc (Zn)