RESULT CO
COATES ROAD SNAKE VALLEY, PYRENEES SHIRE
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RESULT CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
Britannia Reef, Snake Valley
RESULT COMPANY/
BALLARAT AND CARNGHAM CONSOLS COMPANY (September 1869)
CARNGHAM CONSOLS COMPANY (March 1870)
12.1861: encouraged by the result of a recent crushing.
10.1863: erecting machinery of a very superior kind
03.1864: yield of 118 ounces from 600 tons, or 3 dwt 22.67 gr per ton from a lode 7 feet wide at a depth of 160 feet.
09.1864: yield of 55 ounces from 300 tons or 3 dwt 16 gr per ton from a lode 6 to 8 feet wide at a depth of 160 feet.
12.1864: yield of 535 ounces 17 dwt 12 gr from 1469 tons or 7 dwt 7.1 gr per ton from a lode 3 feet wide at a depth of 160 feet; have opened at 220 feet and find that the lode is as good as at the upper levels.
03.1865: yield of 44 ounces 7 dwt 23 gr from 126tons 17 cwt or 7 dwt per ton from a depth of 220 feet.
09.1865: sinking a shaft
(new company)
12.1868: to clean up shaft and erect machinery
03.1869: sinking their shaft, removing and erecting machinery.
06.1869: sunk to a depth of 328 feet and will soon begin to drive
(new company - Ballarat and Carngham Consols)
09.1869: from a statement by the mine manager: there 3 lodes in this claim: Britannia, Carngham and Sinclair; the Sinclair is the least worked because of the heavy water encountered when this reef was first opened; present shaft is 310 feet deep and a crosscut is being put into Carngham lode; a new discovery has also been made south of the shaft; 15 inch horizontal steam engine; likely to erect a battery
inrush of water at 6000 gallons per hour; baled out after a delay of 10 hours
12.1869: erecting crushing machinery
contract let to erect a complete stamp battery for 905 pounds.
03.1870: 15 head battery at work
04.1870: machinery erected, mine drained, drives found in good order
06.1870: erecting 2 buddles, furnace and mills for treating pyrites; water heavy, difficulty in baling it out.
have only crushed a small amount but the average per ton was good.
Recorded production from the GEDIS Ballarat Mines Database:
Mine: RESULT CO.
From To Tons ozs dwt gr tonnes kg
01.1864 03.1865 1,495 753 5 10 1,518 23.430
Mine : BALLARAT AND CARNGHAM CONSOLS CO.
From To Tons ozs dwt tonnes kg
04.1870 09.1870 2,589 687 16 2,630 21.393
04.1870 06.1870 7 15 0 7 0
Total Production : 1456 ozs 1 dwt 10 gr from 4091 tons or 45.28 kg from 4155 tonnes.Heritage Inventory Description
RESULT CO - Heritage Inventory Description
The principal features at this site are three separate intact mullock heaps surrounding a shaft which is open for 7m, there may also be some foundations north of the shaft but this part of the site is covered in blackberries. The smallest mullock heap is a finger of mullock that commences 25m west of the shaft. It is 40m by 5m by 1 to 2m high. There is a larger finger of mullock 10m east of the shaft which is 45m long by 15m wide and 5m high. The largest mullock heap at this site is south and south west of the shaft. It is between 5 and 7m high and has three fingers which run south, south west and west from a common point 8m south of the shaft. These mullock fingers range from 55 to 35m in length and 15 and 25m in width. These separate mullock heaps reflect three distinct phases of mining at this site. There is also a dam south west of the largest mullock. Further research is required to determine the origin of these separate heaps of mullock./nA line of smaller shafts and their associated mullock heaps runs south of the main site. These workings are each approximately 5m in diameter and up to 1m high, and perhaps 20 to 30m apart. They are spread over 200 to 300 metres. The first of these smaller workings is next to the south side of the largest mullock heap. It is a depression adjoined by a flat topped roughly circular mullock heap which is 8m in diameter and 1.5m high, which might have been a whim platform. These three mullock heaps and the whim platform reflect three different phases of mining.
Heritage Inventory Signficance: Regional as part of the Britannia Reef group of mines
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UNNAMED DEEP LEAD MINEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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BRITANNIA COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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RESULT COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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