GREAT SOUTHERN AND CHILTERN VALLEY UNITED MINE SITE
RESEARCH STATION LANE RUTHERGLEN, INDIGO SHIRE
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GREAT SOUTHERN AND CHILTERN VALLEY UNITED MINE SITE - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
Canavan says that the Great Southern and Chiltern Valley United mine yielded fairly and should have been payable, but the mine was overdeveloped and closed due to a lack of liquid capital. The company held leases totalling 4 km along the Prentice Lead, between 1899-1903.Heritage Inventory Description
GREAT SOUTHERN AND CHILTERN VALLEY UNITED MINE SITE - Heritage Inventory Description
Features of the Great Southern and Chiltern Valley United mine site are foundations of a battery and mining machinery, a mullock heap, pebble dump, and sand dumps.
Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has: Scientific significance: because of its rarity and intactness (range of relics)
Heritage Inventory Key Components: Battery: Concrete footings for 10-head of stamps (measuring 24 ft x 6 ft x 3ft high) and associated tables (14 ft x 9 ft x 4ft high); T-shaped concrete engine bed (22 ft x 17 ft x 3 ft high and 1-inch bolts); and four 5ft-square gas-producer stands. Mining machinery foundations: Concrete engine bed (30 ft x 3 ft) and winder bed (26 ft x 9ยข ft), and remnant (rear wall) of brick bob-pit. Mullock heap: Largely quarried heap with a single dumping line, and the depression of a filled/capped shaft. Pebble dump:Largely quarried. Sand dumps:Two large dumps. The southern dump has two rows of cyanide vat impressions; the eastern dump has three rows.
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GREAT SOUTHERN AND CHILTERN VALLEY UNITED MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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