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New NSW Mineral View Site - Minview information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="Zengeo" data-source="post: 455975" data-attributes="member: 9979"><p>Goldtrapper,</p><p></p><p>I'm from WA so not familiar with Minview, but can relate your experience to the Geoview and WAMEX databases in WA. </p><p></p><p>It is unlikely that the electronic databases simply have been updated with older data, especially from that far back. You might find a point location with a gold symbol from an old reported 'occurrence' and that'd be it. </p><p></p><p>The departments were pretty good at compiling data (ie. produced ounces) from the reports sent in from mining operations and early prospectors, but often not much other info was recorded. Hence it's not available now. Officially. But yeah for sure, state archives of newspapers and other reports of the time will often have a lot of 'unofficial info' not reported to the department of the day but was certainly newsworthy enough to be printed. </p><p></p><p>Regarding the inputting of historic data, the departments do work backwards in time from recent to older data. And there is a massive backlog of data to go through so it will take years and years to get most of it in. </p><p></p><p>Also, if you're referring to information in old reports, as in written descriptions like State Geologist's Reports from when they checked out a new goldfield and not data, it's unlikely that any actual data from those reports will ever be digitised. You'll have to read the reports to pull out any data. But electronic scans of the hard copy reports should be available online and searchable. </p><p></p><p>Good luck with your hunting</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zengeo, post: 455975, member: 9979"] Goldtrapper, I'm from WA so not familiar with Minview, but can relate your experience to the Geoview and WAMEX databases in WA. It is unlikely that the electronic databases simply have been updated with older data, especially from that far back. You might find a point location with a gold symbol from an old reported 'occurrence' and that'd be it. The departments were pretty good at compiling data (ie. produced ounces) from the reports sent in from mining operations and early prospectors, but often not much other info was recorded. Hence it's not available now. Officially. But yeah for sure, state archives of newspapers and other reports of the time will often have a lot of 'unofficial info' not reported to the department of the day but was certainly newsworthy enough to be printed. Regarding the inputting of historic data, the departments do work backwards in time from recent to older data. And there is a massive backlog of data to go through so it will take years and years to get most of it in. Also, if you're referring to information in old reports, as in written descriptions like State Geologist's Reports from when they checked out a new goldfield and not data, it's unlikely that any actual data from those reports will ever be digitised. You'll have to read the reports to pull out any data. But electronic scans of the hard copy reports should be available online and searchable. Good luck with your hunting [/QUOTE]
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