Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre

Minerals Separation Ltd Guide to Records

Listed by Mark Scillio and Gavan McCarthy with Tim Sherratt

In the first five years of the twentieth century, Minerals Separation Ltd, a small London-based company, was involved in developing a revolutionary technique of ore extraction. Its work, along with that of others, emerged in response to 'the Sulphide Problem', seen by some historians as the most serious metallurgical crisis faced by any Australian mining field in the nineteenth century. [Details]

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- Series 1 - Mining and Company Files
- Series 2 - Administrative Files
- Series 3 - Patents Development and Research
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These records are managed by the University of Melbourne Archives. All queries relating to access should be made to University of Melbourne Archives quoting Accession Number: 90/93 and the required inventory identifier(s).
Processing of this collection and generation of this finding aid was made possible with the support of
- Peter Crabb
- The University of Melbourne

Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, April 2004
With support from Peter Crabb and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Mark Scillio and Gavan McCarthy with Tim Sherratt
HTML edition Ailie Smith
Updated 17 October 2019
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/mine/mine.htm

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