NEW DAWN MINE & BATTERY SITE
DONNELLYS CREEK TOOMBON, BAW BAW SHIRE
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NEW DAWN MINE & BATTERY SITE - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: The New Dawn workings are part of the 1930s revival of interest in mining in the Toombon area. Miners' huts and a 20-head battery were constructed at Clarke's Flat but the returns failed to measure up to expectations and the mine was closed down. The huts and machinery were not left on the site.Heritage Inventory Description
NEW DAWN MINE & BATTERY SITE - Heritage Inventory Description
Features of the New Dawn mine and battery sites are adits (E446700, N5824200) a battery shed and intact battery(E446000, N5824900), and huts(E446000, N5824700). Workings - adit levelsBattery shed - plant still in shed. Stampers - two coupled Thompson 5-head iron-framed stamp batteries, and form work for copper plates/corduroy strakes, and a Wilfley table. Battery engine - a Southern Cross 4-cylinder vertical in-line diesel engine with Vee-belt drive to a first motion shaft and belt drive from there to the battery. Huts - between the battery building and the Aberfeldy River bridge (on Clarkes Flat) are four timber huts with corrugated iron roofs (constructed in the 1930s for the miners workings at the New Dawn mine).
Heritage Inventory Significance: National EstateScientific significance - rarity and intact nature of the mining relicsNetwork values - relics represent a sequence of uses from 1870 to the 1930s.
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TOOMBON DAMVictorian Heritage Inventory
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NEW TOOMBON MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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ALLUVIAL WASH WORKINGS, CLARKES FLATVictorian Heritage Inventory
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