[Gold chest belonging to Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, c.1851-1855]

Gold chest belonging to Thomas Livingstone Mitchell

Specimens are in two forms as follows:
Rocks: 32 specimens, mostly quartz, varying in colour, shape and texture. Most have light concentrations of gold: a few heavy concentrations. Four are in small boxes. Specimen 42 consists of three minuscule samples individually wrapped in blue paper with the following respective legends in ink: 'From one basin at our camp on Baduldura L. Mitchell 12 July';  'One basin in the Muckerwa W Arthur  13 July';  'From the Muckerwa one basin W. Danielson 13 July'. All three samples are wrapped in blue paper with the note: 'Gold washings from Baduldura and Muckerwa Ck.'
Gold dust: In ten large and three small circular cardboard containers with glass lids

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