BRITISH COLUMBIA CO
BRUMBYS LANE SNAKE VALLEY, PYRENEES SHIRE
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BRITISH COLUMBIA CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
BRITISH COLUMBIA COMPANY
BRITISH COLUMBIA GOLD MINING COMPANY
(Wilson in his book, The Forgotten Goldfield, Snake Valley, has shown the Confederate, Alabama and Edinburgh mines in the vicinity of this site.)
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: sinking a new shaft and intend erecting large and efficient machinery.
08.1865: recorded production of 70 ozs 10 dwt or 2.193 kg.
12.09.1865: No. 1 shaft down 114 feet
No. 2 shaft down 117 feet; work suspended pending erection of machinery; making water at 450 gallons per hour erecting:
a 10 inch by 30 inch horizontal steam engine for pumping and puddling,
an 11 inch by 30 inch horizontal steam engine for winding,
a Cornish flue boiler: 25 feet by 5 feet 6 inches,
a chimney stack, 50 feet high
contract for erecting machinery and constructing chimney stack let for £299 10s.
09.1865: erecting permanent and efficient machinery
12.12.1865: erecting machinery
12.1865: erecting very costly plant
03.1866: has been idle for some time.
24.04.1866: machinery at new shaft nearly completed; to fix pulley and winding rope, making shoots to carry water from shaft to dam, fixing skids in shaft, laying down tramways for mullock and play sheets on the brace
15.05.1866: machinery working well
29.05.1866: shaft skidded, cages working well
06.1866: recently recommenced but have not yet puddled; a large company set up from a co-operative15 months ago with the issue of script, since that time has been nearly idle.
09.1866: again in the hands of a small company and work has commenced.Heritage Inventory Description
BRITISH COLUMBIA CO - Heritage Inventory Description
Site 50.07 is a disturbed site with a quartz wash heap covering an area 35m by 25m and up to 1.0m high. This heap is not a regular shape, and it appears that material has been removed from this site. There is a mullock heap south east of the quartz wash that is 1 m by 10m and up to 2m high.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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FORMER WELSH METHODIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H2007
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UNNAMED SMALL DEEP LEAD MINEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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UNKNOWN, POSSIBLE THE EUREKA ALLUVIAL AND CYANIDE WORKSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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