GRANYA STATE BATTERY
MCFARLANES LANE GRANYA, TOWONG SHIRE
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GRANYA STATE BATTERY - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
A five-head government battery was installed at Granya in 1906, which crushed stone for the small mining parties scattered through the ranges. By 1914 the Granya mining scene was dormant and the government battery idle.
In 1935, the government battery was again at work, crushing small parcels of ore for thirty-eight parties in the district. A private chlorination plant was erected in the yard of the government battery, where it treated treated tailings and the local pyritic ore. Late in the 1930s, the Eastern Star Co. installed a reverberatory furnace at the government battery, and reopened first the Star of the East mine and then the Burning Stump shaft. The government battery remained at Granya until 1949, crushing small tonnages of ore for modest yields of gold, wolfram, tin, and antimony.Heritage Inventory Description
GRANYA STATE BATTERY - Heritage Inventory Description
Features are floors and foundations of the former battery, a slum pond, tailings and a cyanide vat.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional. The site has scientific significance because of its rarity and intactness.
Heritage Inventory Key Components: Battery - Two levels of concrete flooring (both measuring 28 ft x 24 ft) with associated post stumps. The upper level features an H-shaped concrete foundation (12 ft x 8 ft x 2 ft high, with 1+-inch bolts) which contains well-preserved mortar blocks for five head of stamps. The lower level features two wooden bearers and three small concrete mounting beds. Slum pond - Below the battery is a full slum pond (80 metres x 20 metres, and two metres high). On the east corner of the pond is a small dump of tailings with one in situ small galvanised iron cyanide vat.
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GRANYA STATE BATTERYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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