Brownings Luck Company Mine, off Wycheproof Road, ST ARNAUD
Wycheproof Road ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
This site dates from the turn of the century and includes substantial brick machinery foundations (winder bed) of an unusual design, plus a 50 m wide treated tailings dump of low significance. Though of relatively poor integrity, the machinery foundations have scientific significance.
Brownings Luck Company Mine Site is historically and scientifically important at a LOCAL level as a substantially intact example of an important gold mining technique. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria.
Overall Brownings Luck Company Mine Site is of LOCAL significance.
RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:
Site 77.1 has poor integrity and little historical importance and hence low cultural significance.
Site 77.0 has:
. Scientific Significance, due to the survival of some well preserved brick machinery
foundations. These foundations are of an unusual design.
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Brownings Luck Company Mine, off Wycheproof Road, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
Site 77.0. Brownings Luck mine (Operated around the turn of the century). Mine site. Remains are located on the east side of the Strategic Firebreak Track 700 metres from the St. Arnaud-Donald railway line. The mine site has mainly been flattened and only two distinct features survive above ground.
The first feature is a 12 ft square, one metre high, red brick winder bed. The bed has 1-1/4 inch iron mounting bolts. On the south side of the bed is a rectangular hole (probably a shaft) which is surrounded by post holes containing 1-1/4 inch iron mounting bolts. 12 metres to the north of the brick winder bed/shaft site is a large tank-like bed which measures 30 ft x 9 ft. This bed, which stands the same height as the winder bed, has three walls which are 1-1/2 ft wide, the other wall (north wall) is a foot wider. A line of 2 inch mounting bolts runs along the north and south walls. The eastern end of the bed is obscured by a pepper tree. Site 77.1. Tailings Dump (cyaniding commenced in this area c.1899). Treated tailings dump. 150 metres south-east of the mine site is a partly quarried raised tailings dump. The dump is approximately 50 metres wide and has traces of cyanide vat impressions.
Brownings Luck Company Mine, off Wycheproof Road, ST ARNAUD - Integrity
Poor.
Heritage Study and Grading
Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
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