INVESTIGATOR FREEHOLD CO
345 LINTON-NARINGHIL ROAD LINTON, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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INVESTIGATOR FREEHOLD CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage InventoryHistory of Place:
07.1863: claim taken up.
10.1863: land purchased by the company.
12.1864: bottomed and have a good prospect; erecting puddling machines.
03.1865: the shaft is 8 feet 6 inches by 3 feet and has reached a depth of 181 feet;
machinery includes:a 14 inch by 30 inch steam engine for winding, pumping and puddling;a boiler: 20 feet by 6 feet;a 9 inch draw lift;2 Round's patent chains for trucks and cages;
erecting puddling machines with cast iron bottoms and wrought iron sides;
the steam engine and puddling machines were purchased twelve months ago from the now defunct North American Gold Mining Company for £550.
05.09.1865 ;the three compartment shaft is 8 feet 6 inches by 3 feet clear and has reached a depth of 180 feet; machinery includes: a 16 inch by 30 inch horizontal steam engine for winding, pumping and puddling,a Cornish flue boiler: 24 feet by 6 feet, a 9 inch draw lift, maximum stroke 9 feet, discharging into 20 foot by 20 foot by 6 foot feed tank at the brace,an iron puddling machine is operating and another is being erected,Round's flat chain with trucks and cages; the engine and boiler are housed under sawn timber.
06.03.1866: three day stoppage of pumps, water heavier; took from 2 to 28 February to drain mine; intending to sink a further 50 feet.
22.05.1866: machinery in good order.
06.1866: have now driven 200 feet for the gutter and expect to strike it soon.
09.1866 : reached deep ground but no results as yet.
24.12.1866: air pipes fixed for ventilation; the 9 inch pumps are working at ten 4 foot strokes per minute; one puddling machine is operating and the framework for another is on the ground; intend erecting another steam engine.
12.1866: broken into the gutter and obtained a good prospect.
03.1867: have an encouraging prospect.
12.1866: the only recorded production is 12 ozs or 0.373 kg.Heritage Inventory Description
INVESTIGATOR FREEHOLD CO - Heritage Inventory Description
An open deep shaft 2.6m by 1m which has some large section timbers extending from its northern edge into a depression. This depression is approximately 1m wide and runs for a distance of 15m, and may be have been a pump bob pit. Approximatelyone metreeast of the depression is a pile of basalt rocks covering an area 6m by 3m. This appears to be the ruins of a building or machinery foundation. There is a low mound of gravel/earth 5 metres east of the shaft. This mound is 6m in diameter. A dam 15m by 10m is situated 25 m east of the shaft. An almost intact mullock heap begins 7 metres south of the shaft. It is orientated north/south and is 45m by 20m by 4-5m high. A small amount of rock has recently been removed from the mullock heap to fill in a section of a nearby gully. The eastern edge of the site is defined by a row of over mature pine trees. There is also a similar aged pine growing out of the edge of the shaft. The shaft, the dam and the mullock heap are the most intact features at the site. The pine trees give some definition to the site but the other features have deteriorated and can not be readily identified.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Not relevant
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