GOLDEN BAR CO MINE SITE
166 LANCASHIRE GAP ROAD CHILTERN, INDIGO SHIRE
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GOLDEN BAR CO MINE SITE - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
The Golden Bar Co. struck good stone in 1863 on Higgins Reef, which had been worked in a desultory fashion since 1855. The Higgins, West's and Alfred reef, all in the same locality, were later jointly known as the Golden Bar Reef. In 1864, a battery was installed, 'the best in the division', with 16 stamp heads and a 16-hp engine, but a good deal of gold escaped in pyrites. From 1868, the mine was worked by the United Consols Co. and was one of the few active quartz mines on the field. The United Consols mine was idle by 1872: its plant was removed and the tailings profitably treated by a party of Chinese.
The Golden Bar Reef, touted as 'Chiltern's most famous', lay idle until 1898. Up to that date, a total of 20,000 tons from the reef had yielded an average 1 oz per ton.
The Lady Rose mine operated in the locality between 1909-15. Its plant included a steam winch.
GOLDEN BAR CO MINE SITE - Interpretation of Site
Heritage Inventory Interpretation:
Heritage Inventory Description
GOLDEN BAR CO MINE SITE - Heritage Inventory Description
Features of the Golden Bar Co mine site are two dams, a battery site, and tailings dump. Lady Rose mine site - 100 m from the upper dam, on the west side of the track, is a partly quarried mullock heap and a flattened machinery site. Alluvial workings - puddler and water race. On the eastern end of the of the upper dam's embankment is a weathered puddler , fed by a well-defined water race.
Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has: - scientific significance - because of its range of relics - network values - with New Golden Bar and Golden Bar Extended mine sites
Heritage Inventory Key Components: of Golden Bar Mine Dams - upper and lower dams with breached embankments, 70 m long x 4 m high. The upper dam has traces of insitu sludge (battery tailings) below the western end of its embankment. Flattened battery site - on the slope above the western end of the upper dam is an excavated platform on which are a spread of brick rubble, some decaying bedlogs and a few protruding iron tie bolts. Tailings dump - below the lower dam is an extensive spread of cyanided tailings. Heritage Inventory Site Features:
Archeological Potential: The battery site may have some archaeological potential.
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GOLDEN BAR EXTENDED MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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NEW GOLDEN BAR MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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NEW BALLARAT LEAD ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - PUDDLER 2Victorian Heritage Inventory
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