MIA MIA REEF MINE
NORBURYS ROAD LILLICUR, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
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MIA MIA REEF MINE - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
1857: Diggings at Back Creek and Amherst had nearly junctioned on Daisy Hill Flat, near Mia Mia, and in 1857 the Mysterious Lead, an intricate, winding, deep gutter, was discovered on the flat below the present cemetery.
November 1860: Several companies are at work on the Mia Mia Reef, most of shafts are 100 feet deep ... I will send you a plan of Mia Mia Flat Diggings, connected with the Hard Hill ... Parts of the flat having been opened at different periods has caused it to posses a variety of names, such as Tick Nickle, the flat supports a settled population of over 300.
December 1872: Steam machinery is now almost complete on Mia Mia Reef.
September 1873: Mia Mia Reef has turned out a complete failure. The company has now collapsed, after expending about £3000.
December 1887: 'The Mia Mia' - Very good patches of coarse gold found by Chas. Anderson, 'who appears to be peculiarly fortunate in his prognostications relating to the existence of gold'.Heritage Inventory Description
MIA MIA REEF MINE - Heritage Inventory Description
The Mia Mia Reef area was the focus of alluvial mining in 1857 when diggers found two shallow leads - Back Creek and Amherst - junctioned in the area. During the course of the rush alluvial miners discovered a promising reef and by 1860 several parties were at work on Mia Mia Reef. Shafts went down only 100 feet or so. Mia Mia Reef witnessed only one attempt at large scale mining when, in 1872, the Mia Mia Reef Company erected steam machinery. This attempt was a complete failure, with the company expending over รบ3,000. The reef appears to have been more-or-less abandoned after this./nSite 16.0: Mia Mia Reef mine/nMullock heap - 30 metre long intact mullock heap and filled shaft./nWhim platform - Immediately east of the shaft site is an intact circular whim platform./nWater dam - 250 metres north-east from the mine is a large silted dam./nGrave - On the north side of the dam is a single grave (marked by quartz pebbles and a white wooden cross). The grave belongs to a man called Baldock who was killed in an accident at the mine. The grave is maintained by local people.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional. Both sites to be protected [mullock heap, whim platform, dam, grave and Chinese camp site] Site 16.0 has: Scientific significance: Contains a range of relics documenting quartz mining operations carried out on the site. Site includes a grave, of a man killed at the mine. Archaeological significance: The site has the potential to yield artefacts and evidence which will be able to provide significant information about the technological development of gold mining.
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MIA MIA REEF MINEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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CHINESE CAMP SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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