FAIRLEY'S CREEK MINE & BATTERY SITES
OFF BUCKLAND RIVER ROAD BUCKLAND, ALPINE SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Sites associated with the Fairleys Creek workings located along the lower 1.5km section of Fairleys Creek before its junction with Buckland River.
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FAIRLEY'S CREEK MINE & BATTERY SITES - History
Mr Frank McGuire discovered quartz reef in September 1885. Quartz prospecting claim registered by Melbourne & Buckland United (1887). Mid 1888 Buffalo Gold Prospecting Co took over. Nov 1888 Fairley's Creek GMCo formed and erected battery. Curshing equipment placed on the site in April 1897 by Fairley's Creek GMCo, a London based company. They developed the reef extensively. A new 30-head battery began operation by June 1898. Two miners were killed December 1898. It appears mining operations ceased about 1901.
FAIRLEY'S CREEK MINE & BATTERY SITES - Interpretation of Site
Quartz goldmining site. The early battery site is difficult to interpret as the later incline tramway has been built over its centre. The most prominent features remaining are believed to relate to the mine's development by the Fairleys Creek GMCo. They include the later battery site, tramways, water races and tunnels.
Heritage Inventory Description
FAIRLEY'S CREEK MINE & BATTERY SITES - Heritage Inventory Description
Fairleys Creek mine and battery sites are of regional significance. The battery from 1898 was the largest ever erected on the Upper Ovens Goldfields. The remnant features are good examples of large-scale, English backed companies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Surface workings and adits, incline tramway, early battery site, office site, dray track and level tramway, later battery site, water race and pipeline, glass artefact scatters c.1860s on flat below battery site.
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FAIRLEY'S CREEK MINE & BATTERY SITESVictorian Heritage Inventory
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