GLENFINE ESTATE CO
GLENFINE ROAD WERNETH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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GLENFINE ESTATE CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
GLENFINE ESTATE Co.
31.08.1896: starting to sink a shaft next week; their lease being 1.5 miles further south-west than any other shaft here.
25.12.1897: there is great interest in this development, which is a mile south of the most southerly mine on the goldfield; located on the east bank of the Woady Yallock Creek; commenced with good prospects at the beginning of the year; purchased a steam winding plant and a horse puddler; largely involved in development work to date, and has proved a large amount of wash; recently erected three steam self emptying cast iron puddling machines; at present there is only enough wash to keep one machine going; employing 27 men below ground and 13 men above ground; yield to date is 200 ozs.
1899: Capital of £12,500 in 25,000 shares of 10/- each, lease of 500 acres; the payable ground opening up if north and west of the shaft; and while the mine is in its infancy it has distributed £12,500 in dividends; plant consists of an 18 inch cylinder winding and pumping engine, a 16 inch cylinder puddling engine and three iron puddlers and three full sized boilers; effective ventilation is obtained by use of a Root's blower.
04.01.1901: yield for the year 1900 of 7201 ozs.
20.07.1901: yield for the quarter of 1735 ozs; 145 men working at the mine.
1898 to 1902: recorded production of 34,082 ozs 6 dwt (or 1060.103 kg).Heritage Inventory Description
GLENFINE ESTATE CO - Heritage Inventory Description
The mullock heap is up to 5m high and has four fingers between 65m and 80m long and between 20m and 30m wide, which fan from west to north west around the shaft. The remains of the quartz wash heap is south of the shaft. It is triangular in shape with 2 sides of approximately 100m, and a third of 75m. A considerable amount of material has been removed from the east side of the heap leaving two fingers 60m by 10m and 30m by 20m respectively. The slimes from this mine cover an area of approximately 200m by 150m by up to 2m deep between the quartz and the mullock then further west. A brick foundation 6.5m by 1.9m is located 10m east of the mullock heap. Some pulleys and drive shafts, an ore truck and a badly corroded boiler are in the vicinity of the brick foundation. A 30m by 20m dam is located further east of the brick foundation. ARTEFACTS:/nPulley and shafting 0.8m long with the attached pulley wheel 0.73 m diameter./nPulley wheels and shafting, 0.9m long, largest pulley 0.3m diameter, two others 0.1m in diameter./nBadly corroded boiler 2.75m by 1.02m diameter at one end and 1.22m diameter for the end with the flange, rivetted construction/nBadly corroded ore truck, 0.94m by 0.75m by 0.6m, constructed of wrought iron sheets and iron strapping, part of mechanism for opening and closing the gate on the end of the truck is still on the bottom of the truck.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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GLENFINE MINING & HOMESTEAD COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GLENFINE EXTENDED COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GLENFINE WEST LEADS COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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