SMYTHESDALE RACECOURES CO (3)
101 RACECOURSE ROAD HADDON, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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SMYTHESDALE RACECOURES CO (3) - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
SMYTHESDALE RACECOURSE COMPANY
RACECOURSE COMPANY (December 1871)
06.1869: preparing operations.
12.1871: made good progress in sinking its shaft.
03.1872: bottomed and making ready to drive.
09.1872: progressive mine with works of considerable magnitude.
12.1873: yield for the quarter 250 ozs.
03.1874: improving of late.
06.1874: yield for the quarter 625 ozs.
09.1874: yield for the quarter 599 ozs.
12.1874: yield for the quarter 936 ozs 16 dwt.
03.1875: yield for the quarter 1262 ozs 15 dwt.
06.1875: yield for the quarter 1328 ozs 3 dwt.
09.1875: yield for the quarter 1461 ozs.
12.1875: yield for the quarter 1408 ozs 16 dwt.
03.1876: yield for the quarter 1456 ozs.
06.1876: yield for the quarter 1303 ozs 19 dwt.
09.1876: yield for the quarter 1302 ozs 10 dwt.
12.1876: yield for the quarter 1100 ozs
03.1877: yield for the quarter 1082 ozs
06.1877: yield for the quarter 960 ozs 18 dwt
09.1877: yield for the quarter 1063 ozs 15 dwt.
12.1877: yield for the quarter 936 ozs.
03.1878: yield for the quarter 832 ozs.
06.1878: yield for the quarter 1532 ozs
09.1878: yield for the quarter 1704 ozs.
12.1878: yield for the quarter 1475 ozs 8 dwt.
06.1879: yield for the quarter 1235 ozs.
09.1879: yield for the quarter 1505 ozs.
12.1879: yield for the quarter 1585 ozs.
03.1881: yield for the quarter 1470 ozs.
09.1881: yield for the quarter 1600 ozs 19 dwt from 17,990 tons of wash dirt.
12.1881: best of the mines at Haddon at present, giving regular satisfactory yields.
yield for the quarter 1600 ozs 6 dwt from puddling 13,650 tons of wash dirt.
06.1882: declining yields; erecting their plant at the No. 2 shaft.
03.1883: improved returns.
06.1883: markedly improved.
09.1884: improving; declared dividends of £1350.
06.1885: stopped work fairly suddenly.
09.1885: total value of the gold obtained is £214,975; the greater part of this claim has been re-occupied by parties who are to give it a further trial.
10.1873 to 09.1879: recorded production of 25,844 ozs 19 dwt or 803.886 kg.
01.1881 to 03.1885: recorded production of 14,694 ozs or 457.045 kgs.40
10.1873 to 03.1885: total recorded production of 1,260.932 kgs.40Heritage Inventory Description
SMYTHESDALE RACECOURES CO (3) - Heritage Inventory Description
On the west side of the track there is a cluster of 4 mounds of quartz wash, earth or slimes between 8m and 15m in diameter and up to 3m high. The site is very disturbed with no sign of a shaft or any clue to how this site operated. Quartz gravel up to 1.5m high is spread over an area 100m by 70m on the east side of the track.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Not relevant
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SMYTHESDALE RACECOURSE CO. (1)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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SMYTHESDALE RACECOURSE CO (2)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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SMYTHESDALE RACECOURSE CO. (4)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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