| Main Title: |
The Buckland Valley goldfield [DVD] : from the ashes / Presented by Andrew Swift ; filmed by Sean King. |
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| Author: |
Swift, Andrew.
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| Imprint: |
Bright, Vic. : Heritage Rat Productions, 2007. |
| Collation: |
1 videodisc (DVD) (approx. 95 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Summary: |
The Buckland Valley was one of the most eventful mountain goldfields in Australia. Within a few short years it witnessed a rush of over 6,000 diggers, a high death toll with the outbreak of typhoid and the infamous anti-Chinese race riots of 1857.
Filmed after the 2006 bushfires, this documentary recalls these major events as well as examining many of the varied historic mining sites of this valley. Visiting large scale hydraulic sluicing pits, Chinese hut sites and floating into old quartz reef tunnels, w[h]ere the footprints of the last miners are found. An ancient Chinese mining apparatus is also rediscovered in a working reconstruction.
This film is a rough and ready adventurous tour of rediscovery set in a remarkable corner of North Eastern Victoria.
A Heritage Rat production. |
| Subject: |
Gold mines and mining
Chinese
Buckland Valley (Vic.) (Taungurung Country)
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