HOMEWARD BOUND CO.
COADS LANE SCOTCHMANS LEAD, BALLARAT CITY
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HOMEWARD BOUND CO. - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
HOMEWARD BOUND QUARTZ MINING COMPANY/
HOMEWARD BOUND COMPANY, Scotchman's, No. 5 or Buninyong Division,
01.1870: many stoppages as unable to get enough water for steam production
shaft down 200 feet
Contract let to Walker and Company, Union Foundry, for £1000 to supply and erect: ;20 inch cylinder steam engine; boiler, 30 feet long; new 10 head battery; when completed will have 22 head of stampers
04.1870: battery completed in February; buddle and furnace erected to treat pyrites and sand
06.1870: plant sold
12.1877: pumping and winding plant are to be erected again.
03.1878: battery at work, though the shortage of water has restricted the amount of work.
1868 to 12.1878: recorded production for the Homeward Bound (New) and the New Homeward Bound is 7263 ozs 10 dwt 2 gr (or 225.925 kg).
NEW HOMEWARD-BOUND Co., Homeward-bound Reef, located due south of and probably on the continuation of Hiscock’s Reef, No. 5 or Buninyong Division,
12.1871: had an excellent strike of gold.
03.1872: the excellent returns have induced one party to lease an area from the Buninyong Estate, and 2 other companies are prospecting and preparing machinery.
09.1873: reached the 450 foot level; and payable quartz is being raised from that level.
yield has improved this quarter to 3 dwt 22.5 grs per ton compared to 2 dwt 7 grs last quarter and the company has declared a handsome dividend.
03.1874: operations suspended.
03.1878 ;applied to the Borough of Buninyong for a supply of water from the government reservoir.Heritage Inventory Description
HOMEWARD BOUND CO. - Heritage Inventory Description
There 4 or 5 small mullock heaps varying in size from 15 m by 10 m to 30 m by 20 m, and from 3 m to 4 m high. Spread out in a line running roughly east west with approximately 10 m between the heaps. This site is modified and very disturbed. What may have been the Outward Bound Co. consists of a very disturbed mullock heap 40 m by 25 m by 1.5 m high, which is covered in gorse. At the site of what may have been the Homeward Bound Co. there is a mullock heap, 25 m by 15 m by 4 m high, which is slightly disturbed and spreading but still retains its shape. A intact mullock heap marks the site of the Turntide. The heap is triangular in shape 5 m high with sides 45, 45 and 50 to 60 m. A depression 9 m south of the heap marks the position of shaft. A further 10 m south are the remains of two foundations one is brick on bluestone and the other is a stone foundation at ground level. These are likely to be the foundations of the winder.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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GREAT CENTRAL COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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BUNINYONG FREEHOLD G.M. CO. NO.6 LATER BUNINYONG GOLD MINE CO. NO.6Victorian Heritage Inventory
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