PRINCE OF WALES CO. SOUTHERN END OF THE SNAKE VALLEY LEAD
SNAKE VALLEY ROAD SNAKE VALLEY, PYRENEES SHIRE
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PRINCE OF WALES CO. SOUTHERN END OF THE SNAKE VALLEY LEAD - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
This site may be the Prince of Wales or the Ancient Briton, there are inconsistencies between the locations given on the map in Wilson and the Department of Energy and Minerals Deep Lead Map No. 6. At this stage have named this site the Prince of Wales, with site 85 being the other likely contended.
PRINCE OF WALES CO.
On the Snake Valley Lead, which takes its rise in Linton's Hard Hills from where its course runs north. This mine is located at the top of Snake Valley Lead, and is next to and adjoining the Ancient Briton Co. and the Great Briton Co.
08.1859: obtaining good gold for some weeks; the wash-dirt is about 4 feet thick; have a whim and a puddling machine.
07.1860: one of two profitably employed companies on this lead.
11.1860: finished their claim after 20 months and after paying expenses have paid dividends of £5 per man per week for that period.
03.1864: paying well.
12.1864: one of the principal claims in this area where the working is good and the wash-dirt very wide, and where the dividends vary from £3 to £8 per man per week.
03.1865: placed on the share market and sold.
06.1865: progress normal; making more than wages.
12.1865: continuing pay as it has done for years.
03.1866: paying about wages.
03.1867: paying.
12.1867: yield for the quarter 105 ozs 3 dwt 22 gr.
12.1868: yield for the quarter 112 ozs 3 dwt 22 gr
06.1869 to 05.1870: recorded production of 10,636 ounces or 330.824 kg. (it appears that there is an error in one of the dates, it is more likely that the period began in 1859)Heritage Inventory Description
PRINCE OF WALES CO. SOUTHERN END OF THE SNAKE VALLEY LEAD - Heritage Inventory Description
/nThe features remaining at this site include one heap of quartz wash which is 40 m long 12 m wide and 3.5 m high, a scatter of quartz, which appears to be the remains of another quartz wash heap, and a mullock heap, which is 30 m in diameter and 4 m high. The remaining heaps appear substantially intact and suggest a location for a shaft in the north west corner of the site. While these two heaps are substantially intact there are no other features that show how the site operated.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Local
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UNNAMED SMALL DEEP LEAD MINEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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UNNAMED DEEP LEAD MINEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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UNKNOWN, POSSIBLE THE EUREKA ALLUVIAL AND CYANIDE WORKSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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