SPOTTED DOG QUARTZ MINE
BARRACOOTA TRACK MALLACOOTA, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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SPOTTED DOG QUARTZ MINE - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: In the 1880s and 1890s the Mines Department built a network of tracks throughout the forests of East Gippsland, and improved access brought a new round of discoveries and mining revivals. Prospectors concentrated on water courses, particularly the heads of river systems in the south fo the region. Gold panning around the shores of Mallacoota Inlet in 1894 led to a rush of claims in the following year. Shallow excavations were made at the lake's edge, and quartz lodes were worked down to depths of 100 ft in places around the Inlet. Gold claim no. 2036 was registered at Mallacoota in June 1894 by Robert Stewart of Mallacoota Inlet, George Alfred of Bairnsdale, George Evans of Yarragon, and Thomas Ridgeway of Leongatha. It was granted for an area of 90 acres in January 1895. In 1894, the shaft was described as 30 feet deep, equipped with a windlass, and with a heap of earth nearby. A trial crushing at the Bairnsdale School of Mines yielded an average of 2.7 oz per ton. The prefabricated mine office was relocated and reputedly survives at surveyor Edward Lee's former property, Fairhaven. The Spotted Dog mine was the most famous in the Mallacoota district, featuring a line of shafts driven into a reef approximately 100 metres long. The claim was worked steadily until 1896-7, reputedly producing 899 oz of gold. Cyaniding took place on the site in 1898.Heritage Inventory Description
SPOTTED DOG QUARTZ MINE - Heritage Inventory Description
Visible signs of mining activities are the opening to the main shaft, various prospecting excavations, mounting bolts for a battery, engine base, line of water race, earthen dam embankment, butts of wharf piles, and some heaps of stone and clay from miners' hut fireplaces. A cyaniding vat and nearby cemetery also recorded (Lewis, Aitken & McCann).
Informant/s: East Gippsland Regional Planning C'tee 1980 Lewis, Aitken & McCann 1993/nRecorded by: David Bannear Date Recorded: 1980
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SPOTTED DOG QUARTZ MINEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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ALLAN HEAD CEMETERY (OLD MALLACOOTA CEMETERY)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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