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MINE SITE
625 CLUNES-MOUNT CAMERON ROAD CLUNES, HEPBURN SHIRE
MINE SITE
625 CLUNES-MOUNT CAMERON ROAD CLUNES, HEPBURN SHIRE
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MINE SITE - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
1859: In May 1859, and Mt. Glasgow diggings were started in June 1859 by a party consisting of Rolstone, Wilson, McLoughlin and Wood.
September 1869: The large gold mining companies near the swamps are making good progress, and have first class machinery erected, or in the course of erection. The Great Wheal and North Clunes Extended Companies expect to be alluvial mines, the former being 85 feet, the latter 100 feet deep. The Great Northern and Talbot and Clunes will be quartz mines.
December 1869: The large companies near the swamps (on the prolongation of the Clunes Reefs) have not made much progress.
March 1870: The Great Northern Co., at Merin-merin Swamp, have powerful machinery completed. The Great Wheal and North Clunes Extension companies are at a standstill, owing to the great depression in the mining market.
September 1870: Annuities Quartz claim at Mt Glasgow Reef has struck lode 23 feet thick, company propose erecting battery near the mine to save expense of cartage to Clunes.
March 1871: Annuities Co., at Mt Glasgow, bids fair to be a first-class claim The company are now erecting a crushing machine on the margin of the Middle Swamp, about 1½ miles distant from the claim, which will be connected by tramway.... The battery will (?) is a 12 head revolving one.
December 1871: The Annuities Co., Mount Glasgow, has disappointed shareholders.
March 1865: A Company has been formed for sluicing near the eastern base of Mt. Glasgow. Water to be conveyed from Merin Merick Swamp, about one mile distant.
1913:Two men working a small but payable reef.Heritage Inventory Description
MINE SITE - Heritage Inventory Description
Mullock heap - Approximately 0.5kms to the east of Site 9.0 is a small mullock heap.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local Integrity of the sites so reduced as to have very little interpretive value. Some potential for archaeological artefacts.
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MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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ANNUITIES COMPANY BATTERYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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