KITTY'S LEAD
KITTYS LANE NAPOLEONS, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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KITTY'S LEAD - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
23.10.1857: Victoria lead at Kitty Gully, Buninyong has been opened and all 40 claims are being worked with some paying very well, the upper end is 6 to 20 feet deep with the lower end is up to 110 feet deep; the Napoleon Lead presents a favourable appearance; Union Jack and Glencoe Leads have been abandoned.
KITTY’S LEAD, 3.5 miles south-west of Buninyong township on the Western Durham Ranges,
12.1870: a rush of up to 500 people to an area where a payable quartz reef was supposed to exist; 750 ounces of gold has been found in the form of nuggets from a few ounces to 11 pounds at depths of from 3 inches to 9 feet.
03.1871: still yields nuggets; population has thinned down, remaining miners expect to get steady returns; yield of 500 ounces; both alluvial and quartz are prospected.
09.1871:still yields well, yield is 720 ounces.
12.1871 : steady yield which totalled 700 ounces for this and other shallowing workings.
03.1873 : yield of 360 ounces, including nuggets as large as 12 lbs.
06.1873 : yield of 350 ounces, this figure is for both Kitty’s Lead and Gympie.
09.1873 :yield of 350 ounces.
12.1873 : yield of 100 ounces.
03.1874 : yield of 120 ounces for Kitty’s and South Durham.
06.1874 : yield of 220 ounces for Kitty’s and South Durham.
06.1878: nuggets are again being found.
03.1882: good alluvial prospect obtained at 60 feet by a party working the gully.Heritage Inventory Description
KITTY'S LEAD - Heritage Inventory Description
The shallow sinkings cover an area 600 m by 250 m. They are fairly intense and were probably quite shallow. A coppice regrowth forest covers the area; making it a very picturesque landscape. At least 2 shafts are surrounded by mullock heaps 10 m in diameter and 1.5 m high. The few open rectangular shafts 1.2 m by 0.8 m by 10 m deep appear to be from the 1930?s. This is a rare example in this area of shallow alluvial sinkings. The adit heads west under a low hill. It is open for approximately 70 m with a 20 m drive heading south off the main drive. The roof is caved in north and east past the junction where the drive branches south. Two fingers of mullock approximately 20 m by 3 m by 1 m high run east and south from the entrance to the adit.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local / Regional
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KITTY'S LEADVictorian Heritage Inventory
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