Queensland Company Mine, off Wycheproof Road, ST ARNAUD
Wycheproof Road ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
This site features a battery, sludge ponds and dam (of generally poor integrity). Nearby, of lesser significance, and associated with the operations of other mining companies are tailings dumps and open cuts.
The Queensland 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 the Queensland Company Mine Site is of LOCAL significance
RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL
Scientific Significance, because of the survival of a number of features associated with the Queensland Co.'s battery (battery foundations, sludge pond and water dam).
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Queensland Company Mine, off Wycheproof Road, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
Site 71.1. Queensland Co.'s battery (battery erected in 1900). Battery site. Uphill (south-west) of the tailings dump are the foundations of a battery. The most visible feature of the site is what survives of the loading ramp. At the base of the loading ramp are the concrete footings and iron mounting bolts (wooden stamper blocks and bearers have mostly decayed) for four battery boxes (20 head of stamps). The foundations are obscured by vegetation. A linear depression and spread of brick on the west side of the stamper foundations may mark the site of the battery's engine and boiler. The rest of the site has been flattened.
Sludge ponds. Between the large dump of treated tailings and the battery foundations are the remnants of two small, largely quarried sludge ponds.
Water dam. In the gully below the large dump of treated tailings is a dry water dam. The dam's embankment, which has been breached, is a 100 metres long and 2 metres high.
Queensland Company Mine, off Wycheproof Road, ST ARNAUD - Integrity
There a few relatively well preserved features associated with the Queensland Co.'s battery.
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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