GLENFINE WEST LEADS CO
BURGERS AND QUARRELL ROAD WALLINDUC, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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GLENFINE WEST LEADS CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
GLENFINE WEST LEADS Co., the entry for 4 April 1905 suggests that this was either a separate company from the Great West Glenfine Co. or that it operated after that company,
04.02.1905: the bores indicate that shaft is within reach of wash.
1904 to 1907: recorded production of 2655 ozs (or 82.582 kg).
GREAT WESTERN GLENFINE CO., believe that this is the same company as the Glenfine West Leads,
25.12.1897: 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 of 90 feet; only employing one shift of 3 men; suggested this might be shepherding of this 1000 acre lease.
1899: lease of 300 acres; presently boring with a diamond drill.
10.01.1903: had to close down because of lack of funds just when it prospects looked good.
06.02.1903: plant to be sold at auction on the 18 February by Bell, Lambert & Co. and W.S.Ham of Ballarat, including a double 8 inch cylinder winch, a Cornish flue boiler, Blake feed pumps, rails, trucks, tools, horse puddling machine, splendid set of oregon poppet legs approximately 75 feet high and a quantity of new housing.Heritage Inventory Description
GLENFINE WEST LEADS CO - Heritage Inventory Description
The filling in the shaft has collapsed leaving a depression. Two metal bracket poppet leg supports are lying on the south side of the depression. Part of the stone walling of the pump bob pit runs north of the shaft. The winder and pumping foundations are immediately north of the pit and cover an area 9.5 m by 6 m. 5 m north west is the remains of the walls of the boiler setting, which covers an area of approximately 10 m by 6 m. This foundation is strewn with bluestone and broken bricks. The mullock heap, 40 m by 30 m by 5 m high, runs south east from the shaft. The quartz wash heap, 65 m by 35 m by 3.5 m high, runs south from the shaft. A heap of fine gravel covers an area 70 m by 45 m on the west side of the quartz wash. 100 m west of the shaft there are three heavy duty lifting frames used either for raising cages or bailing tanks in the shaft, and what appears to be a yoke with a frame attached which might have been around a bucket. ARTEFACTS: Three heavy duty frames made of metal strapping for holding cages, ore trucks or bailing buckets being raised and lowered in the shaft, approximate dimensions 1.1 by 0.9 by 0.7. A metal frame forming a rectangle 1.5 m by 0.7 m, one end of the frame is shaped like a yoke, which is hooked into the top of a U-shaped frame along which there are several holes containing bolts.
Heritage Inventory Significance; Regional
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GLENFINE NO.1 COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GLENFINE ESTATE COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GLENFINE EXTENDED COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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