New Ravenswood Mines Archive
This collection is a microcopy of materials held in the microform collection.This company was registered on 23 March 1899 to adopt an agreement with the Queensland National Bank to acquire four gold mining leases at Ravenswood, formerly belonging to the Ravenswood Gold Co. Ltd. Other properties were subsequently purchased. By the 1900s it had a 30 stamp mill and was returning substantial dividends to investors. It was closely associated with the other gold mining companies, Ravenswood Deep Mines and Donnybrook Blocks Mining Syndicate.
This collection covers the period 1900 - 1918 and includes letterbooks, lists of dividends paid and cyanide assay reports.
Archive Location: Microfilm 40L
Series Listing
Mines production tonnage reports
Detailed Listing
Letterbooks
The New Ravenswood Limited
Reel 1
NRM/L/1 21/11/1900 - 30/12/1904; pp. 1 - 1018. (Pagination broken, see footnote.)
Spine title: New Ravenswood Reports. Letterbook. Vol. 1. 10/11/1900 - 5/1l/l904.
Contains forthightly reports to Directors, letters from the General Manager to the Secretary and the Company Solicitor, and coded cables. Not indexed.Reel 2 + Reel 3
NRM/L/2 30/12/1904 - 14/12/1905; pp. 1 - 492. (Pagination broken, see footnote.)
Spine title: New Ravenswood Reports. Letterbook. Vol. 2. 30/12/1904 – 30/42/1905.
Contains fortnightly reports to Directors, letters from the General Manager to the Secretary and coded cables. Not indexed.
NRM/L/3 22/12/1905 - 19/10/1908; pp. 1 - 1001. (Pagination broken, see footnote.) to p. 362
Spine title: New Ravenswood Reports. Letterbook. Vol. 3, p. 363, 8/11/1906+
Contains fortnightly reports to Directors, letters from the General Manager to the Secretary, coded cables and general correspondence. Not indexed.Reel 3 + Reel 4
NRM/L/4 20/10/1908 - 29/2/1912; pp. 1 - 997. p. 601
Spine title: New Ravenswood Reports. Letterbook. p. 602, 18/8/1910+,
Vol. 4. 20/10/1908 - 23/2/1912.
Contains fortnightly reports to Directors. Not indexed.Reel 4 + Reel 5
NRM/L/5 20/3/1912 - 2/3/1918; pp. 1-997. (Pagination broken, see footnote.) To p. 838.
Spine title: New Ravenswood Reports. Letterbook.
Vol. 5, 13/4/1916+ 20/1/1912 - 27/11/1918.
Contains fortnightly, monthly and yearly reports to the Directors and miscellaneous correspondence to the Directors from the General Manager. Not indexed.
The Donnybrook Blocks Mining Syndicate Limited
Reel 5
NRM/D/L/l 21/11/1900 - 19/54911; pp. 1 - 465. (Pagination broken, see footnote.)
Spine title: Donnybrook Reports. Letterbook. Vol. 1. 18/11/1900 - 20(?)/5/l9ll.
Contains fortnightly and monthly reports to Directors and coded cables. Not indexed.The Ravenswood Deep Mines Limited
Reel 5 + Reel 6
NRM/DM/L/1 23/1/1903 - 30/1/1920 pp. 1 - 739. (Pagination broken, see footnote.) To p. 550 Spine title: Deep Mines’ Reports. Letterbook. p. 551, 2/2/1909+, Vol. 1. 23/1/1903 - 30/1/1920.
Contains fortnightly reports to Directors and copies of cables sent and received. Not indexed.Reel 6
Telegrams and cables
The New Ravenswood Limited
NRM/LT/1 28/10/1913 - 31/8/1918; pp. 1 - 232. (Pagination broken, see footnote.)
Spine title: Letterbook: Telegrams. Vol. 1. 1913 - 31/8/1918.
Contains copies of telegrams and confirmation of cables sent by The New Ravenswood Limited company. [There is no clear indication that the Donnybrook or Deep Mines companies are involved in this volume.] Not indexed.Miscellaneous Documents
The New Ravenswood Limited and The Ravenswood Deep Mines Limited
NRN/MISC/1 – 7 Miscellaneous documents 1905 - 1909 (25 sheets). Items
NRN/MISC/l The New Ravenswood Limited. List of Dividends declared from formation of the Company to 20th June, 1907. (Typescript). 1 p.
NRM/MISC/2 As above. 2 copies. Attachments: Three pages of pencil calculations; Particulars of London Office Expenses for the year ended 30th June, 1906. 2 copies. Typescript. 7 pp.
NRM/MISC/3 New Ravenswood, Limited. List of dividends paid since formation of Company, 25th October, 1911. Typescript. Attachment: one page of pencil calculations. (Mss). 2pp.
NRM/MISC/4 New Ravenswood Limited. List of Shareholders on London Register, on 2nd April, 1909. 8 pp.
NRM/MISC/5 Taxation return by The New Ravenswood Company, dated 15th January, 1909, being Schedule G, under the Income Tax Acts of 1902 to 1907. 1 p.
NRM/MISC/6 Statement of guilt and voluntary restitution by Bernard T. Brady in respect to moneys embezzled by him from The New Ravenswood Ltd and the Ravenswood Deep Mines Ltd, dated 24th and 26th May, 1906. 4 pp.
NRM/MISC/7 Two sheets of pencil calculations.Cyanide Assay Reports
NRM/CA/1 15/10/1904 - 24/12/1909; pp. 1-92. Cover title: Assay Results.
Mss log of three to four times weekly cyanide assay tests carried out in the mines laboratory, with monthly sununary of results. Inclusion: one single sheet znss. copy of report from the Royal Mint, Sydney on three bullion samples requested by the Queensland National Bank on 28th April, 1905.
NRM/CA/2 1/4/1914 - 9/6/1916; pp. 1 - 42. Cover title: Cyanide Assay Book.
Mss log of three to four times weekly cyanide assay tests carried out in the mines laboratory, with monthly summary of results.
Milling and Reduction Reports
NRM/MR/l 2/5/1912 - 18/1/1915; 104 pp.
Cover title: Laboratory Report No. 7.
Contents: Monthly milling and reduction reports 2/5/1912 - 10/10/1912.
Mss. Monthly reports from General Manager, Ravenswood, to Secretary, New Ravenswood Ltd., London, 23/12/1912 -25/12/1913. Typescript. [Reports State Milling and Reduction reports enclosed, but these lacking.]
Monthly Milling and Reduction Reports to General Manager, Ravenswood, from Acting Reduction Officer, Ravenswood, 20/11/1913 - 11/6/1914, 4/11/1914 - 18/1/1915. Typescript.
Monthly Reports to General Manager, Ravenswood on the operations of the Cyanide Plant, 10/3/1914 - 18/9/1914. Typescript.
NRM/MR/2 18/2/1915 - 21/12/1916; 34 pp.
Cover title: Laboratory Reports No. 8.
Contents: Reports of the Company Metallurgist to General Manager on cyanide plant, 16/3/1915, 7/7/1915, 21/5/1916. Typescript.
Monthly Milling and Reduction Reports from Acting Reduction Officer to General Manager, Ravenswood, 18/2/1915 - 21/2/1916. Typescript.
Inclusions: Summary report of the Metallurgist on the experimental work done using the cyanide percolation process to 27th July, 1916. 7 pp. Typescript.
Report on a No. 8 level Grant Mines sample. 9 pp. Mss. Mining Report on what is known as The Copper Knob in The Ravenswood Goldfield by A. Woodville Wilson A.C.T. S.M. Mining and Metallurgical Engineer, Ravenswood, North Queensland, 7th November, 1978. 3 P. Typescript.
NRM/MR/3 13/9/1912 - 1l/10/1913; pp. 1 - 46.
Cover title: Laboratory Reports No. 7. Mss Milling and Reduction Reports.
NRN/MR/4 27/10/1914 - 9/9/1915; pp. 1-75.
Cover title: Mining and Milling Reports 13/11/1914 - 9/9/1915.
Mss Milling and Reduction Reports.
NRM/MR/5 7/10/1915 - 22/3/1917; pp. 1 - 30.
No cover title. Mss Milling and Reduction Reports for the Sunset and General Grant mines.Mines Production Tonnage Reports
NRM/MP/1 12/7/1906 - 22/3/1917; 95 pp.
Cover title: The New Ravenswood Ltd. Tonnage Book.
Contents: Production Tonnage Reports for:
Sunset Mine 12/7/1906 - 23/3/1917
General Grant Mine 29/11/1906 - 22/3/1917
Mellanaur Mine 12/7/1906 - 11/6/1908
Black Jack Mine 12/7/1906 - 22/6/1910
London North Mine 6/7/1911 - 23/4/1914Footnotes:
Pagination of Letterbooks and book of telegrams is faulty in sequence as follows :
Letterbooks
NRM/L/1 Page No.30, 31, 223, 269, 540 541, 545, 590, 597, 598, 697, 920 are not included in volume. Apparently oversight in numbering system rather than letters missing.
NRMI/L/2 Page No. 159 -168, 196, 197, 386, 389 not included. Apparently oversight in numbering system rather than letters missing.
NRM/L/3 Page No. 362 not included. Apparently oversight in numbering system rather than letters missing.
NRM/L/5 After page 695, a second section, numbered 475-483 follows. Apparently oversight in numbering system rather than letters missing.
NRM/D/L/l Page No. 22, 23, 57, 61, 62, 63, 141, 279, 280, 281, 283 not included. Apparently oversight in numbering system rather than letters missing. Duplicate page numbering also apparent, with page nos 70, 166, 200 repeated.
NRM/DM/L/l Page No. 40, 41, 283, 333, 334, 335 not included. Apparently oversight in numbering system rather than letters missing. Between pages 55 and 56 is a page numbered 545 and between pages 65 and 66 there are three pages respectively numbered 279, 280, 281. Letters, however, are in the correct chronological sequence.Telegrams and Cables
NRM/LT/1 Page No. 97-119 not included. Apparent oversight in numbering system rather than telegrams missing.
