GOLCONDA COMPANY
GOVERNMENT ROAD KOOROOCHEANG, HEPBURN SHIRE
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GOLCONDA COMPANY - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: The mining relics date to the 1880s and the operations of two companies. In the late 1870s, the German Gully Quartz Mining Company commenced operations on the site. By 1881, the company had sunk two shafts - No. 1 to 190 feet, and No. 2 to 334 feet - and were employing 14 men to work the claim. Crushings from the mine were averaging nearly 1½ ounces to the ton. The company's operations came to a halt shortly after.In 1888, the ground was taken up again, and a company floated in 24,000 shares called the Golconda Quartz Mining Company. The new company purchased a 16-inch cylinder winding engine from Ballarat and erected it on the site. The company had finished the erection of their mining plant by June 1888 and then commenced underground operations. For 18 months the company cross-cut in search of payable ore, until, at the 420-foot level, they finally struck payable stone. They immediately fixed another engine and a 10-head battery, and commenced mining . The Golconda Company were relatively unsuccessful.Heritage Inventory Description
GOLCONDA COMPANY - Heritage Inventory Description
Mullock heap - Intact large heap with two main phases of dumping. The earlier dump has three dumping lines; the longest is approximately 50 metres. The later heap is peaked and about 20 metres in diameter. Mining machinery site - To the south of the mullock heap (opposite side of track) is an excavated platform which has a spread of brick, stone and mortar rubble. Above the machinery site is a stone blacksmith's forge and benched platform which has traces of footings for a rectangular structure (perhaps site for the battery's water tank).Battery site - To the west of the heap is an excavated platform containing a spread of brick, stone and mortar rubble, and a largely buried stone boiler setting. Below the battery site is a small (30ft wide) breached slum pond. A small dump of treated (cyanided) tailings lies below the slum pond.Water dam - Large dry dam in the gully below the battery site.
Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has:Scientific significance - range of features, including two machinery sitesArchaeological potentialNetwork values - part of Yandoit Track network of sites - Scorpion Gully to Criterion Reef.SIGNIFICANCE RANKING: Regional
Recorded by: David Bannear
Heritage Inventory Site Features: Mullock heapMining machinery siteBattery siteWater dam
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GOLCONDA COMPANYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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