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Puddling for gold, Sandhurst [i.e. Bendigo]

Mining site with tents and wooden huts in background, deep trench in foreground, man standing with horse attached to puddling device used to wash gold from crushed quartz, another man holding a horse's reins on left.

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Date(s): 1858/1864

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