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BUNINYONG NEW CO
1210 WINTER STREET BUNINYONG, BALLARAT CITY
BUNINYONG NEW CO
1210 WINTER STREET BUNINYONG, BALLARAT CITY
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BUNINYONG NEW CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
Union Jack or Glencoe Lead, or Scotchman’s Lead as per June 1866, No. 5 or Buninyong Division,
BUNINYONG NEW GOLD MINING COMPANY
09.1864: frontage claims registered ]
12.1864: land purchased
03.1865: erecting very efficient machinery ]
29.08.1865: 3 compartment shaft, 9 feet 6 inches by 4 feet, down 60 feet; 19 inch by 42 inch high pressure horizontal steam engine for pumping and winding ;Cornish flue boiler: 30 feet by 6 feet 6 inches ;brick chimney stack, 50 feet high
12 inch pumps: plunger, drawlift and sliding windborne, maximum stroke 6 feet 6 inches; machinery and shaft housed in
engine and boiler cost 790 pounds; pumping and winding gear cost 788 pounds; 410 feet of wire rope cost 60 pounds; 100 feet of 12.5 inch pipes for the pump workings cost 350 pounds, and the sliding wind bore cost 86 pounds 10 shillings and 6 pence
12.1865: through the rock at 206 feet, the depth at which the Union Jack gutter was worked.
17.04.1866: cages in working order
08.05.1866: puddling machine gearing and puddling machine erected
12.06.1866: to erect two more puddling machines
19.06.1866: to erect two larger puddling machines ]
06.1866: yields are more than paying expenses, and will increase when in good working order.
10.07.1866: erecting 2 new iron puddling machines
14.08.1866: contract let to J. Walker and Company for 2 new cast iron puddling machines for 455 pounds 7 shillings; 12 trucks ordered and 136 feet of drive belt; calling tenders for a winding engine
09.1866: proved a large amount of payable ground in their claim.
27.11.1866 : erecting another boiler
03.1867: excellent returns averaging 100 ounces per week.
06.1867: paying dividends, yield of 120 pounds per week.
09.1867: obtaining steady yields in payable quantities.
12.1867: yield of 1071 ounces.
03.1868: yield of 1590 ounces 2 dwt.
06.1868: yield of 771 ounces 18 dwt.
09.1868: yield of 1294 ounces 10 dwts and 5 grs.
11.1868: air ducks erected for ventilating drives on the Devonshire Lead ]
12.1868: barely paying expenses; yield of 493 ounces 1 dwt and 18 grs.
03.1869: just covering expenses; yield of 516 ounces 5 dwt and 9 grs.
06.1869: yield of 232 ounces 2 dwt.
05.1866 to 06.1869: recorded production of 11340 ozs (or 352.772 kg).
08.1869: shifting the machinery to the Pactolus shaft
09.1869: at a standstill.
12.1869: plant and machinery sold for 1550 pounds to the Tweed Company, Haddon
01.1870: to wind upHeritage Inventory Description
BUNINYONG NEW CO - Heritage Inventory Description
A very disturbed site with a mullock heap approximately 80 m long by 30 m wide by up to 3 m high, which is infested with gorse and blackberry. A scatter of quartz wash covers an area of approximately 30 m by 30 m north east of the mullock heap.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Not required
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