QUARTZ REEF MINE AND SHALLOW ALLUVIAL SINKINGS
PITFIELD ROAD STAFFORDSHIRE REEF, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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QUARTZ REEF MINE AND SHALLOW ALLUVIAL SINKINGS - History
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QUARTZ REEF MINE AND SHALLOW ALLUVIAL SINKINGS - Heritage Inventory Description
/nThe small scale mine that operated here does not appear to have been successful, there is no evidence of either quartz wash or battery and tailings. It is directly south of the Triumph workings and was probably a quartz reef mine. The main shaft, 3.2 by 1.4 m, is open to 15 m. An area 10m by 10 m has been levelled around the shaft, and a broken trench runs north from the edge of this levelled area. This trench is 1.5 m deep and is within an arm of mullock 40 m by 5 m by 1.5 m high. An open shaft 1.4 by 0.6 m is enclosed in one side of this arm of mullock. Fingers of mullock run both south west and south east from the levelled area around the main shaft. These mullock heaps are 20 m by 10 m by 2.5 m high and 25 m by 14 m by 2.5 m high respectively. Trenching, lines of rocks and levelled areas extend for 20 m north east from the shaft and appear to be the site of the winder. A pile of rocks that used to be a stone chimney is located a further 40 m north east of the winder foundations. Although undisturbed there are very few features, probably due to its lack of success. A 20 m by 10 m dam is located in the gully north east of the site, while an area 300 m by 200 m south of the mine site along and between the gullies is covered with shallow alluvial sinkings. Sections of the gullies are eroding and may have been sluiced.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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TRIUMPH CO WORKINGSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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QUARTZ REEF MINE AND SHALLOW ALLUVIAL SINKINGSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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DEEP LEAD MINES, DERWENT JACK'S GULLY (4)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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