Person
Rosales, Enrique (Henry) (1820 - 1916)
- Born
- 1 January 1820
Cadiz, Spain - Died
- 1916
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Mining engineer
Summary
Henry Rosales was a manger of some of Victoria's mines and a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society, London. He was also the Mayor of Walhalla and wrote reports for the Victoria Department of Mines. Considered an expert on gold mining in both alluvial and quartz reef settings, he testified at the Goldfields Royal Commission in 1862. In retirement he made inspections of mines, apparently on behalf of the Victorian Geological Survey, and was also consultant to private companies.
Details
Chronology
- 1831 - 1836
- Education - Educated at Hofwyl in Switzerland
- 1837
- Education - Educated at the Freiberg Academy of Mining and Technology in Germany
- 1841
- Education - Educated in Berlin
- 1843
- Career position - Mining engineer in Cornwall
- 1844 - 1853
- Career position - Mining Engineer in Spain
- 1853
- Life event - Migrated to Australia (Melbourne)
- 1861
- Life event - Naturalised as a British citizen
- 1862 - 1864
- Career position - Manager of the New N. Clunes Co. mine in Victoria
- 1864 - 1865
- Career position - Manager, Victoria Company, Clunes
- 1865 - 1881
- Career position - Legal and General Manager, Walhalla Gold Mining Company
- 1870
- Career position - Chairman, Board of Gippsland Mining
- 1873
- Career position - Mayor, Borough of Walhalla
- 1877
- Business event - Granted patent for an improved process of extracting gold from pyrite
- 1878 -
- Award - Fellow, Royal Geological Society, London
- 1881 - 1916
- Career position - Member, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1889 - 1891
- Career position - Member, Royal Commission to investigate the best ways to assist the development of the Victorian gold mining industry
- 1895 - 1896
- Career position - Acting laboratory manager, Victorian Department of Mines
- 1908
- Career event - Resigned as Vice-President, Victorian Chamber of Mines
- 1910
- Life event - Donated his extensive mineral collection to the Geology Department, University of Melbourne
Related entries
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details
Books
- Rosales, Henry, Report on Mount Wills as a Gold-field and Tin-field Respectively, and also on the Tongio West Gold-field (Melbourne: Department of Mines and Water Supply, 1897), 11 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Birch, William D. and Darragh, Thomas A., 'Henry Rosales: pioneer mining manager on the 19th century Victorian goldfields', Journal of Australasian mining history, 24 (2026), 124-50, https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/informit.T2026100900013891438186919. Details
- Rosales, Henry, 'On the Gold-Fields of Ballarat and Creswick Creek, Victoria', Quarterly journal of the Geological Society, 15 (1859), 497-503. Details
- Rosales, Henry, 'Laboratory Report', Victoria Department of Mines, Annual Report of the Secretary (1895), 26-30. Details
- Rosales, Henry, 'Laboratory Report', Victoria Department of Mines, Annual Report of the Secretary (1896), 21-26. Details
- Rosales, Henry, 'A few notes and observations on the reduction and ore dressing of auriferous quartz veinstone in Victoria', Transactions of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, 5 (1898), 81-91. Details
Resources
- 'Rosales, Henry (1820-1916)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475838. Details
See also
- Lloyd, Brian E.; Combes, Howard, Gold in the Walhalla region : West Gippsland, Victoria (Brighhton East, Vic: Histec Publications, 2010), 302 pp. Details
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Created: 24 October 2006, Last modified: 20 October 2026