TIERNEYS CREEK BATTERY AND MINE SITE
1139 ENSAY-DOCTORS FLAT ROAD ENSAY, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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TIERNEYS CREEK BATTERY AND MINE SITE - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: Tierney's Creek junctions with Haunted Stream at Stirling township. Mines operated along Tierney's Creek (mainly the lower reaches) from 1882 until the early 20th century. In the mid-1880s, Sawyer and party tunnelled on a reef near the head of Tierney's Creek—about 5 km above Stirling—erecting a battery in 1887.According to Fairweather, Dan Fay moved a battery to his mine at the head of Tierney's Creek in c.1915 from the Lone Hand mine (some distance up Haunted Stream from the Hans mine), where it had been powered by a Pelton wheel since at least the early 1900s. Fairweather tells how Fay 'set up the battery on the banks of the creek… driving the mill with a motor fuelled by charcoal gas, as petrol was at that time rationed'. Reefs at Tierney's Creek were prospected as recently as 1937.Heritage Inventory Description
TIERNEYS CREEK BATTERY AND MINE SITE - Heritage Inventory Description
Features include a battery, footings for a gas-fired engine, gas producer, tailings dump, mine workings (shafts), winch and truck engine.
Heritage Inventory Significance: National EstateScientific significanceùrarity and range of features
Heritage Inventory Site Features: BatteryùThe crushing plant appears to have originally consisted of two 5-head battery boxesùten head, in allùbut one of the boxes has gone. A standing 5-head wooden-framed battery remains. The cam shaft has been cut and the fly wheel removed. The battery was manufactured by Langlands Foundry Co., Limited, Melbourne. Battery engineùA Crossley wood-gas-fired stationary engine was present on the site until recently [?], but has now been removed by persons unknown. Footings for the engine are still present: a set of timber bearers, measuring 14 ft long x 2 ft square, with 2-inch mounting bolts.Gas producerùA tubular 11ft-long iron retort has fallen over and lies on a tailings dump in the gully below the engine footings. Tailings dumpùA small, intact dump, measuring 30 m x 15 m, and 2 m deep. Mine workingsùSeveral open shafts with mullock paddocks.WinchùBelow one of the open shafts is a winch with a 3-ft drum, complete with wire rope. Next to the winch is an old 4-cylinder truck engine which has been mounted on a 10 ft x 4 ft wooden sledge. A tree has grown up through the sledge and has lifted the engine a metre above the ground. Part of the metalwork of the engine has been overgrown by the tree.
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TIERNEYS CREEK BATTERY AND MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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