MORNING STAR MINE AND INGLEWOOD GOVERNMENT BATTERY
PHILLIPS STREET INGLEWOOD, LODDON SHIRE
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MORNING STAR MINE AND INGLEWOOD GOVERNMENT BATTERY - History
In 1881, the Morning Star Company succeeded in getting rid of the water, have obtained (in ground to the north of the engine shaft) good prospect. The company erected a battery and mined with great success through the 1880s. In 1887 were reported as still getting rich stone and were erecting a new pumping engine of 30-horse power. The mine worked into the early 1900s, e.g., between 1904 to 1907 the crushing statistics were 4211 ounces of gold from 12,700 tons of stone. This government crushing facility was erected in 1915 and included a 5-head battery operated by a suction gas engine. It is estimated that between 1915 to 1941 the crushing figures were 3551 ounces obtained from 6049 tons of stone.MORNING STAR MINE AND INGLEWOOD GOVERNMENT BATTERY - Interpretation of Site
The site is associated with historic gold mining. This is demonstrated by the surviving relics that include remains of two quartz crushing batteries dating from different time periods. The site is located on Crown land and locally protected as a historic site.
Heritage Inventory Description
MORNING STAR MINE AND INGLEWOOD GOVERNMENT BATTERY - Heritage Inventory Description
Morning Star Co - large brick and stone engine bed; two smaller mounting beds; a boiler depression and filled shaft; largely buried brick engine bed; arrangement of wooden stamper blocks and bearers (10-head). Inglewood Government Battery - remnant of small loading ramp; decaying stamper stumps (5-head); two small concrete mounting beds; collapsed iron cylinder; concrete floor; single brick cyanide vat and two stone-walled tailings storage paddock.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional
SiteCard data copied on 03/07/2024: Morning Star Mine. The surviving features include: • Large brick and stone winding engine bed which measures 24-1/2ft by 9-1/2ft and stands 5-1/2ft high. The bed has 1-1/2 inch mounting bolts. The bed is made up of stone and clay mortar which has been faced with hand-made, red bricks. The bricks are set in a lime mortar. Bricks have been removed from the front (northern end) and rear, exposing the soft interior. The engine shaft is situated approx. 12 metres north of the winding engine bed. • On the east side of the winding engine bed is a boiler setting depression; and on the west side, are two small brick mounting beds. The most intact of these small beds measures 12ft by 2ft and stands 2ft high. All the mounting bolts have been removed from the smaller beds. • Most of the mullock has been removed from the site. • Three metres west of the small brick beds is a stone wall which adjoins a largely buried brick battery engine bed. The latter is 2-12ft wide and at least 8ft long. Running west from this bed is a arrangement of decaying bedlogs and stamper stumps (mortar blocks) belonging to two battery boxes. • To the west of the remains is a silted-up water dam. Inglewood Govt Battery This government crushing facility was erected in 1915 and included a 5-head battery operated by a suction gas engine. It is estimated that between 1915 to 1941 the crushing figures were 3551 ounces obtained from 6049 tons of stone. The surviving features include: • At the base of the what survives of the battery’s small loading ramp are three decaying stamper stumps (5-head of stamps). In front of these stumps, slightly west, are two sets of small concrete mounting beds with 1 inch bolts. The concrete of these beds is in poor condition. Associated with the mounting beds is a collapsed iron (gas-producer) cylinder. • The concrete floor of the battery house is still intact, although parts of it are buried by soil. • On the east side of the battery house is a single, circular brick cyanide vat. The vat has a diameter of 12-1/2ft and is at least 4ft deep. The vat’s interior surface has been rendered with concrete. In front (north) of the vat are two, partly bulldozed stone-walled tailings storage paddocks. Most of the tailings have been removed from the mine site.
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FINCHAM PIPE ORGANVictorian Heritage Register H1281
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FORMER CHARLIE NAPIER HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H1143
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UNITY DAM TAILINGS AND CYANIDE WORKSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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