CITY OF CANTERBURY CO
49 LINTON-NARINGHIL ROAD LINTON, PYRENEES SHIRE
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CITY OF CANTERBURY CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
09.1878 ; the best of the claims in this locality.
12.1878: maintains its usual steady returns.
03.1879: paying well.
06.1879: yield for the quarter 617 ozs.
09.1879: maintaining the same yield, unlike other mines at Linton which are in decline; yield for the quarter 541 ozs.
12.1879: yield for the quarter 438 ozs.
03.1880: giving its usual yield.
06.1881: operations have ceased.
1872 to 1880: recorded production of 5,448 ozs or 169.456 kg.Heritage Inventory Description
CITY OF CANTERBURY CO - Heritage Inventory Description
The whole site covers an area 150x75m and is defined by rows of very old pines and eucalypts. The majority of these trees are along the south, east and west sides of the site, there are only a few along the north side of the site. Within this treed enclosure are the remains of a quartz wash heap with several fingers that used to fan out from the shaft. The ends of the quartz wash heaps have been removed leaving a triangular heap of quartz 8m high covering an area of approximately 4000 square metres. There is an intact mullock heap west of the shaft that is 50x40x10m. The shaft is 2.9x1.4 m which is open and very deep.Fourteen metres east of the shaft is an area 10x10m which contains basalt rocks which must have been the site of some machinery. The raised formation, of what appears to have been a track, heads south west from the shaft. This formation, which passes through a number of large clumps of gorse, disappears after approximately 120 metres. A number of mounds and disturbed areas are located north of the mullock heap, as well as two small dams west of this heap./nThis is the largest of the mine site in the vicinity of Happy Valley. The size of the heaps that remain and the imposing rows of trees give convey the impression of a substantial company mine.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Local
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INVESTIGATOR FREEHOLD COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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CITY OF CANTERBURY COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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