GLENFINE EXTENDED CO
GLENFINE ROAD WERNETH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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GLENFINE EXTENDED CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
GLENFINE EXTENDED Co.
1899: Capital of £6,000 in 24,000 shares of 5/- each; lease is 600 acres; shaft sunk to a depth of 300 feet; and drives are being put in which together with boring indicates that this will be a successful mine; the excellent plant of two 16 inch cylinder engines, one for winding and the other for puddling with two iron puddling machines at work; a pumping plant is being erected.
04.01.1901: yield of 2700.5 ozs for the first seven months of the year; the good results were not maintained throughout the year.
01.02.1902: both a quartz reef mine and an alluvial mine.
12.04.1902: another boiler is to be added to the surface plant and it is to be fitted with Galloway tubes prior to building in the boiler.
26.04.1902: purchased the battery from the Long Thought Of Company.
30.08.1902: the battery at this mine is 10 head and is driven by an 18 inch cylinder engine.
1900 to 1902: recorded production of 6426 ozs (or 199.876 kg).
10.01.1903: stopped alluvial mining during the year after only getting 1486 ozs; erected a battery after striking a lode but only got 22.5 ozs from 50 tons when the lode was lost.
06.02.1903: plant to be sold at suction by Bell, Lambert & Co. and W.S.Ham of Ballarat including: 16 inch cylinder winding engine and flat rope winding gear, a 22 inch pumping engine, heavy pumping gear, pump bob and connections, 12 inch pumps and plunger workings, a No.3 Roots blower and engine, a 12 inch cylinder puddling engine, a surface lift and 10 inch column, two first class steam driven puddling machines, three good Cornish flue boilers - one is almost new, double action feed pumps, Blake feed pump steam pipes, wire rope, large quantity of air pipes, rails, trucks, cages, tools & sundries, poppet legs, and some splendid housing.Heritage Inventory Description
GLENFINE EXTENDED CO - Heritage Inventory Description
Ground is collapsing into the shaft which is 3m by 1.4m. The pump bob pit begins on the east edge of the shaft where there are 2 brick piers. The rest of the pit is made of rock and bluestone blocks set in cement mortar. The brick winder and pumping foundations cover an area 11.1m by 5.7m north of the pump bob pit. The quartz wash heap, 55m by 30m by 6m high, is south of the shaft. A rough partially broken foundation made of rock, concrete and some brick covers an 8.5m by 5.6m on the east of the quartz wash heap. The mullock heap 70m by 25m by 7m high runs west from the shaft. Fine gravel and mullock up to 1.5m deep cover an area 40m by 25m between the quartz wash and the mullock. The slum dam covers an area 170m by from 60m to 120m running north from the mullock heap, with walls of mullock being used along the east and west to control the slum material.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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GLENFINE MINING & HOMESTEAD COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GLENFINE ESTATE COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GLENFINE WEST LEADS COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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