GEMINI CO
JUDDS ROAD SCARSDALE, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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GEMINI CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
SCARSDALE AND GEMINI COMPANIES
Location given as Allotment 9 at Scarsdale, on crown land south of the private land owned by Lewis and Perrot.
11.1860: applied for a 50 acre lease and have commenced boring.
12.1860: have bottomed 2 bores and have proved where the deep ground exists.
01.1861: shaft to be commenced; the Oldham may also be in this claim, it comes from the Surfacing Range.
07.1861: the shaft is very deep.
11.1861: each of the companies, the Scarsdale and the Gemini, has a 50 acre lease; the companies use the same shaft which is 200 feet deep.
12.1861: the Scarsdale Co. has not got any gold yet.
01.1863: the Gemini is improving.
09.1862 to 04.1863: recorded production given as 470 ozs (or 14.619 kg).
10.1863: the Gemini is down about 195 feet and in black clay; the shaft must either be in or close to the gutter.Heritage Inventory Description
GEMINI CO - Heritage Inventory Description
The depression between the heaps is probably where the shaft was situated. There are three quartz wash heaps north of this depression; all are approximately 2.5m high, two are oriented east-west and are 25x20m and 20x5m respectively, and the third is 10m in diameter. The mullock heap is south of the shaft, the end closest to the shaft runs north south and is 20x15m the southern end of the heap runs east west and is 25x10m. The mullock is up to 3.5 m high. The orientation of the material at the site is unusual, but there does not appear to have been any removals from the site. As well as the mullock and quartz heaps there is some fine gravel next to the creek.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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DEEP LEAD MINE ON OLDHAM LEADVictorian Heritage Inventory
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TRY AGAIN NO.1Victorian Heritage Inventory
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TRY AGAIN CO NO.2 SHAFTVictorian Heritage Inventory
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