OLDHALL CO
LINTON-PIGGOREET ROAD PIGGOREET, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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OLDHALL CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
SPRING DALLAH QUARTZ COMPANY
SPRING DALLAH QUARTZ MINING COMPANY, location of this mine described as the Old Hall Reef in Wm. Robertson’s History of Piggoreet and Golden Lake, likely to have been the predecessor of the Old Hall mine
05.1861: splendid mining machinery erected
08.1861: have not derived much profit from their claim as yet; the reef is on the surface; have an excellent crushing mill with a 20 horsepower steam engine and 12 head battery.
11.1861: company wound up after an enormous expenditure for little return
06.1864: yield of 200 ozs from 1000 tons, or 4 dwt per ton, from a depth of 100 feet.
09.1864: furnace erected for treating mundic/pyrite impregnated quartz obtained between the 60 and 100 foot levels; yield of 58 ounces 18 dwt 22 gr from 232 tons or 5 dwt 2 gr per ton from a lode 5 feet wide at a depth from 60 to 100 feet; 50 tons of sand remain to be reduced by the furnace and amalgamation.
OLDHALL Co. (an English company)
1905: put up a plant to work the quartz reef, which contained vast quantities of Galena.
03.06.1905: Mr. Ponson, the English capitalist who owns the lease, visited the mine and discussed the plans for future expansion.
07.04.1906: received a government grant of £850 for mining development.
19.05.1906: specifications being prepared for a new 16 inch cylinder winding engine.
02.06.1906: purchased an 18 inch cylinder winding engine, which will be located behind the steam winch, the shaft will then be sunk another 200 feet.
21.07.1906: machinery at work and the shaft is to be deepened to 200 feet.
08.09.1906: underground work has been suspended because the water is heavy.
24.07.1909: mine to be restarted.
01.1907 to 1908; recorded production of 244 ozs 12 dwt (or 7.608 kg).Heritage Inventory Description
OLDHALL CO - Heritage Inventory Description
This was a quartz reef mine the main features remaining at the site include the mullock heap and shaft area, the winder and winding engine foundations and remains of the battery foundations. Immediately east of where the shaft must have been is a 30m by 15m raised and flattened working platform of mullock. An earthen ramp on the north side provided access to the platform and there are some relatively recent timber foundations on the southern side of this platform. At the east side of this platform is the mullock heap which is 25m by 20m by up to 4m high.Twelves metreswest of the platform are the winder and winding engine foundations. These are solid brick structures in good condition, the winder is a 0.34m thick brick wall enclosing an area 4.66 by 3.11m, and the winding engine foundation 1.45m north of the winder foundation is a solid brick structure 5.32 by 1.08m. These structures are approximately 1.5m high and the bricks are set with lime mortar. Approximatelythirty metreswest of the winder foundations are the remains of what must have been a 20-head stamp battery. The battery site hasfour different levels at which its component parts must have been set. These levels step down toward the river which is 40 m south of the battery. The top level is a mounded area from which ore would have been fed into the battery. Immediately below the mounded area are the burnt and rotting remains of the timbers that were the foundations for the battery boxes. The two levels below these timbers are approximately 2 to 2.5m wide and are each approximately 0.5m lower than the higher level. The condition of this battery site is only fair, but it could be protected by removal of the vegetation and reducing the effects of erosion. /nImmediately north of the mullock heap and shaft area a track formation runs in an easterly direction along the side of the river valley.Twenty-five metresnorth of the shaft area a disturbed mullock heap and possible adit site runs down the steep slope towards the shaft area. The mullock heap is approximately 15m long by 25m wide at the base. This site contains a collection of features that are readily interpretable, and forms a part of the whole complex of sites within and around Devils Kitchen.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Regional / State, as part of the network at Devils Kitchen
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