BIRTHDAY NEW FIND CO.
MISERY CREEK ROAD ENFIELD, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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BIRTHDAY NEW FIND CO. - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
BIRTHDAY NEW FIND COMPANY
31.10.1903: a test sample of 2 tons 16 hundredweight of stone taken from surface trenches and open cuts was crushed at the Ballarat School of Mines for a return of 14 pennyweights 12 grains of gold per ton.
12.1905: a test sample of 13 tons of stone taken from the east and west lode at the adit level was crushed at the Kangaroo battery for a return of 11 pennyweights of gold per ton, with 1.5 pennyweights of gold per ton from the concentrates and 2 pennyweights of gold per ton in the tailings.2
01.1906: a test sample of 3 tons of stone taken from the north and south lode, 6 feet wide in a formation 40 feet wide at the adit level, was crushed at the Ballarat School of Mines for a return of 19 grains of gold per ton over the plates, with 7 pennyweights of gold per ton from the concentrates and 7 grains of gold per ton in the tailings.2
07.02.1906: test sample of 5 tons 3 hundredweight of stone taken from the east and west lode at the adit level was crushed at the Ballarat School of Mines for a return of 14 pennyweights 14 grains of gold per ton over the plates, with 6 pennyweights of gold per ton from the concentrates and 3 pennyweights 2 grains of gold per ton in the tailings.2
1906: erecting a small mill.
1907: 8 head battery; main shaft down 100 feet; 10 head battery erected; mine situated about 0.75 miles north east of the Birthday Tunnel mine. A shaft has been sunk near the crest of a low hill and an adit has been driven from the western side of the spur to intersect this shaft at a depth of about 130 feet.2
1908: 8 head battery.
1905 to 1908: recorded production of 241 ozs from 629 tons (or 7.496 kg from 639 tonnes).
13.12.1911: plant, machinery and equipment sold by public auction. It consisted of a Horwood and Sons nine inch double winch, an 8-head stamp battery, a Harrison and Sons concentrating table, an 11 inch cylinder steam battery engine, a Cornish flue boiler 24 feet by 6 feet, feed pumps, Berdan pan, tanks, cage, bellows, anvil, vice, tools, poppet head, housing and sundry items.
1911: mine closed, machinery removed.Heritage Inventory Description
BIRTHDAY NEW FIND CO. - Heritage Inventory Description
/nThis site has two parts. At the upper or northern end there is a deep open shaft near the top of the ridge and a line of trenching/stoping commencing 40 m west of the shaft and running down the slope for 40 m. The trenching appears to go underground about mid way along with the upper section looking more like a collapsed adit. The shaft is surrounded by a 10 m ring of mullock which is 2 .5 m high, and there are two 0.3 m wide trenches 1.5 m long and 3 m apart north of the shaft. The second part of this site is an adit which is approximately 100 m south of the shaft in the bottom of the gully. Two fingers of mullock, 50 m by 15m by 3.5 m high and 20 m by 5 m by 2 m high respectively, run south from the mouth of the adit. The adit is open and connects with the shaft above. Unable to find any sign of the 10 head battery reported to have been at this site. It would it to have been near the lower level and there is no sign of it for 200 m south of the adit.The battery site is located north of the Misery Creek Road. The features at the site are primarily earthern and is a state of decay. Despite the state of these features it is relatively easy to understand how the battery operated.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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BIRTHDAY NEW FIND CO.Victorian Heritage Inventory
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STAFFORDSHIRE REEF COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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