GREAT BRITAIN CO
15 MISTY LANE DURHAM LEAD, BALLARAT CITY
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GREAT BRITAIN CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
THE GREAT BRITAIN Co., Durham Lead,
NATIONAL CO. as reported in the Ballarat Star in August 1863,
c1857: commenced work.
06.1859: total expenditure £ 23,790 including the cost of machinery and plant of £ 3600; this ground could have been worked more profitably as part of a much larger holding; has not yet reached the gutter.
01.1860: has struck the gutter; obtained 0.5 ounces and 4.5 dwt per cubic foot from 2 prospects; new drive has to be put in at a lower level to work the ground.
05.1860: discovered a new lead, a tributary of the Durham Lead at a depth of 245 feet which is yielding 1 ounce per man per week.
05.1860: recorded production of 55 ozs (or 1.711 kg).
06.1860: the deep ground recently found has turned out to be very poor.
06.1861: persevering but with indifferent results.
1861: the National Company formed late in 1861; did not prove to be profitable and all but one of the original sharelolders sold out; the mine was worked completely using hired labour, with almost fifty men being paid 45/- per week.
08.1863: the National and the Great Britain are the same company.Heritage Inventory Description
GREAT BRITAIN CO - Heritage Inventory Description
Great Britain Co: A small dip in the paddock indicates where the shaft was located. It has been filled by the owner of the property, who also had the quartz wash heap pushed south to fill up some depressions in the slope down to the Yarrowee River. The mullock heap, 75m by 25m by up to 2m high, has also been pushed about and is partially covered with gorse.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Not required
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OLD FORTIES COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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JOHN BULL COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GREAT BRITAIN COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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