BULLDOG DIGGINGS
CAPE CLEAR-ROKEWOOD ROAD ILLABAROOK, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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BULLDOG DIGGINGS - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
Montrose Hill, Bulldog or referred to as Bulldog Hill from October 1861, No. 4 or Southern Division, Ballarat.
06.1861: a slight rush has occurred; the workings are quite shallow at only 4 feet.
07.1861: a few parties remain and are making fair wages.
09.1861: rushed; 350 to 400 persons are making fair wages; 20 claims are yielding as high as 1 to 4 ozs per load, one obtained 18 ozs; wash-dirt is 2.5 feet thick at depths of 18 to 30 feet through hard stiff clay, cement and gravel.
10.1861: settled population of 400 miners; 60 companies have found gold, majority are making wages; one company obtained 39 ozs from 17 loads of stuff; depth varies from 20 to 25 feet, thickness varies from 4 inches to 2 feet, and it extends over 250 to 300 feet.
11.1861: yields have declined but prospecting is continuing in the area.
01.1862: rushed; 35 of the 45 holes bottomed averaged 1.5 ozs per load; depth is 36 to 50 feet; thickness of the wash-dirt is 1.5 to 4 feet; mining population is 600 and increasing; expected to be traced into a regular lead.
02.1862: Bulldog rush is yielding 1 oz 13 dwt to 2 oz 10 dwt per load; Rokewood Prospecting Company are erecting a steam baling machine to test the deep ground.
03.1862: still doing well; one party obtained 78 ozs last month from 15 loads of wash dirt; another got 13 ozs 8 dwt from 12 loads of cement that were crushed on trial.
04.1862: yield has fallen off.
05.1862: matters are looking brighter.
Bulldog, No. 4 or Southern Division, Ballarat.
09.1864: small rush
03.1866: most of the old gullies are in the possession of the Chinese, who give no information.
09.1866: a small rush at the end of July, 20 claims turned out well paying 5 to 6 pounds per man.
03.1868: miners are getting excellent wages, 1 pound per man per day is not uncommon.
06.1870: some good patches have been found and are being worked.
09.1871: rush to Bulldog, Nil Desperandum Hill and Mia Mia; depth is 57 feet and the yields are 1 to 3 ozs per load.
Illabrook, No. 4 or Southern Division, Ballarat.
12.1886: a number of small parties are working with average results.
06.1887: small parties are working some with excellent results.
09.1889: two or three sluicing parties are getting fair yields.Heritage Inventory Description
BULLDOG DIGGINGS - Heritage Inventory Description
Commencing from Montrose Hill on Imries Road, where the surface material on the east side of the road is currently being mined. Heading west from Imries Road the first mining features are the remains of numerous shallow alluvial sinkings which commence approximately 200m from the road. These sinkings have been flattened out and are only obvious when you walk over the area. Any mullock or relief in these workings has been lost through the grazing of this area over a long period. These sinkings continue for approximately 100m virtually until the top of the sluicing area. In the sluiced area the top soil has been removed down to the bed rock over a distance of approximately 200m down the slope to the creek. There are well defined race lines through this area. The east side of the Illabrook creek valley is a prominent sluiced mining landscape which constrasts with the deep lead mines when looking south down the creek from the Illabrook-Pitfield Road.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional
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ILLABROOK ALLUVIALSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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BULLDOG G.M. (NEW)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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PIONEER G.M.Victorian Heritage Inventory
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