Mudgee History | Sharpening deposits in the Mudgee district

By Roy Cameron, Oam
Updated March 7 2019 - 1:48pm, first published 12:00pm
Early history of shearstone sharpening deposits
Early history of shearstone sharpening deposits

A reporter in the Town and Country Journal which was printed in Sydney, from 1870 to 1919, stated in, an issue on August 17, 1970, that the beautiful valley of the Cudgegong River, with the main settlement at Mudgee, was most interesting to the miner and the geologist.  It presented within a small area of ground samples of every mineral, metal and stone for which the colony is celebrated.  He specifically mentions gold, silver, lead, antimony, iron, coal, shales, diamonds, sapphires, topaz and zircons.  He neglected to record that on the outskirts of Mudgee disturbed areas could be seen where shearstone had been removed, in small quantities for the sharpening of hand shears,  knives of local butchers and the like.

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