GLENFINE NO.1 CO
BURGERS AND QUARRELL ROAD WALLINDUC, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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GLENFINE NO.1 CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
GLENFINE No. 1 Co.
25.12.1897: the Great Western Glenfine Co.recently amalgamated with the Glenfine No.1 and registered as a company; sinking a shaft close to the western boundary of the Glenfine Estate; depth is 90 feet; only employing one shift of 3 men, suggested that this might be shepherding of this 1000 acre lease.
1899: Capital of £3750 in 20,000 shares of 2/6 each, the lease is 2,100 acres; four bores were put down two on either side of the creek, and a shaft was put down on the west bank but water halted operations and the necessary machinery is now being erected.
14.09.1900: a second trial crushing at both the Speedwell battery and the Ballarat School of Mines yielded 0.5 dwt per ton which suggests that someone may have tampered with the earlier trial crushing; alluvial is opening up better and a steam puddler will shortly be erected and another boiler is being built in.
05.10.1900: operations in the alluvial workings are suspended and the workforce has been reduced; will sink further to test the lode.
04.01.1901: doing progressive work and should prove to be productive.
25.10.1901: company intends erecting steam puddling machines.
10.01.1903: opening up some productive wash after a long struggle and are erecting steam puddlers.
16.01.1903: contract for erecting the puddling machines is nearly complete.
06.02.1903: management is intending to strengthen the pumping gear, and there will not be any puddling until this is complete.
1900 to 1903: recorded production of 7880 ozs (or 245.101 kg).Heritage Inventory Description
GLENFINE NO.1 CO - Heritage Inventory Description
The material used to fill the shaft has collapsed leaving a depression and exposing three bolts on the north side of the depression. The brick pier foundation 7 m north of the shaft is joined on the north to a rough concrete foundation shaped to carry a drum. One collapsed rock foundation is east the drum foundation and the remains of the rock boiler setting is located north of the drum foundation. These foundations cover an area 22 m by 7 m. A small section of the stone chimney base is located approximately 25 m north west of the majority of the machinery foundations. An intact quartz wash heap 50 m by 15 m by 4 m high runs south east from the shaft. The intact mullock heap is on the east of the quartz wash and is 65 m by 30 m by 7 m high, with two small fingers running off the north and the south ends of the main body of the heap. ARTEFACTS:Ore truck, wrought iron truck, 0.75 by 0.54 by 0.54 m, constructed from sheet metal and iron strapping, poor condition badly corroded has no wheels. A rusting tangle of flat wire rope.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional
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GLENFINE NO.1 COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GLENFINE WEST LEADS COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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