NORTH AMERICAN NO.3
HAPPY VALLEY-HAPPY VALLEY CROSSING ROAD HAPPY VALLEY, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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NORTH AMERICAN NO.3 - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
The history section is detailed in the report on the North American No.1, site No. 9.01.Heritage Inventory Description
NORTH AMERICAN NO.3 - Heritage Inventory Description
This site is at the top of the east bank of a creek which feeds into the Springdallah Creek. It consists of a shaft, two mullock heaps running west from the shaft down the bank to the creek, some basalt and timber foundations east of the shaft, a line of stones north of the shaft and some introduced plants south and east of the mine site. The shaft has a tangle of wire in the top but may be open below this tangle. The mullock heaps are gravel and do not seem to contain any signs of quartz stones. Although there are a few very small piles of quartz stones around the site. 8 metres east of the shaft is a collapsed structure which is made of basalt rocks. It contains two short sections of wall amongst a pile of basalt, and its overall dimensions are 7 by 4 m. Immediately north of this ruin are 4 or 5 north/south running parallel depressions some of which still contain sections of decaying timber bed logs. Two iron rods are protruding from one of the timbers. These depressions appear to be the foundations of some machinery. Then immediately east of the depressions is another basalt rock structure. This structure has a section of basalt walling and a scatter of basalt rocks. It is better defined than the other stone structure/foundation and its dimensions are 7.2 by 1.8 m. There is an 8 m long depression located 3 metres north of the shaft. It has a few basalt rocks scattered around and may have been a boiler setting. A lines of rocks from a wall commences at a point 10 m north of the shaft and runs east for a distance of 75 metres. A patch of irises is growing approximately 30 m south of the shaft and there is a group of hawthorn bushes growing 80 m east of the shaft. More machinery foundations remain at this site than at any other deep lead mine sites in this area. It is still not clear what machinery these foundations supported. This site is very old and the structures have deteriorated considerably.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Local
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ROBIN HOOD COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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BRITISH GOLD MINING COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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WAVERLEY GM CO NO.2 SHAFTVictorian Heritage Inventory
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