ENM slide captions [comments in square brackets added later by DGN]
-ENM |
no. |
description |
---|---|---|
6 |
1 |
de Bavay Hills, trig, out from Granites; used 22 Hornet on rabbits [trig surrounded by boulders] |
7 |
10 |
Buchanan Hills - BMR fire plough track heading S (track to leave tank) (fire plough borrowed from Hooker Ck) |
8 |
11 |
Buchanan Hills [more distant, no track visible] |
9 |
17 |
Buchanan Hills [oblique aerial view, to NW?] |
10 |
16 |
convoy heading S — 2 Land Rovers followed by truck [yellow; from mid-distant gravelly rise] |
11 |
5 |
Duck Ponds area, drafting and general office caravan [silver, towed by SWB yellow Land Rover with tropical roof, bars from front to roof corners] |
12 |
14 |
edge of Duck Ponds - near #5 [a few trees, some dead, a few termite mounds, grey soil] |
13 |
9 |
Tertiary limestones, Karst formation on continuation of Lander |
14 |
15 |
field hand (not Brian Dietrich) [man in brown T-shirt with 2 pairs of vertical white stripes, dark shorts] standing by red soil pyramidal termite mound about 2m high, in spinifex plain] |
15 |
18 |
dunes N of Lake Surprise, real dunes [oblique aerial view] |
16 |
12 |
eroded sand dunes, around the SW of South Lake Woods sheet, from helicopter [along line of dunes] |
17 |
13 |
cairn ca. 130°30' Long. — Cambrian — didn’t land [on pinnacle of rock, horizontal aerial view] |
18 |
6 |
beside the east-west access track, Milligan on B25 (missing port? engine); field hand took picture [1945-1974 B25 Mitchell page] |
Visit from EN Milligan, 24/12/1991
Milligan, Edward Norman. 1959. The geology of North Hokianga district. MSc thesis, University of Auckland. https://catalogue.library.auckland.ac.nz/permalink/f/gkavgk/uoa_alma21193901150002091
Citation when inducted into the Australian Prospectors & Miners
Hall of Fame, 2008:
http://mannkal.org/downloads/guests/blaineywinsmininghonours.pdf
Edward Norman Milligan (1932–1999) – New Zealand-born Milligan was one of the most successful coal exploration geologists of his time. His extensive knowledge and detailed approach to exploration prompted the discovery of new coal-bearing basins and the development of eight major coal mines.
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