UNION CO
269 PITFIELD-CRESSY ROAD PITFIELD, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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UNION CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
UNION Co.
05.04.1895: purchased an engine and a complete plant for £503 and have entered into a contract for removal and re-erection of plant for £250.
17.05.1895: erecting plant; advertised for a manager.
14.06.1895: portable engine on the way to the claim other machinery erected.
12.07.1895: machinery officially started and the engine was christened the Ormuz.
22.08.1895: Union Co., still pumping.
25.12.1897: completed the erection of winding and puddling plant in January but had problems and did not get fully underway until April; yield til April was 77 ozs and for the whole year 1777 ozs; proved an immense amount of payable wash; second iron puddling machine purchased and being erected; no calls since April and paid a dividend of 6d per share or a total of £600.
19.01.1900: bad air interrupted operations.
05.10.1900: the North Queen of the Plains winding plant has been purchased and will shortly be removed and re-erected at the No. 2 shaft.
25.01.1901: prospects are poor.
1897 to 1902: recorded production of 19,085 ozs 17 dwt (or 593.65 kg).
10.01.1903: abandoned
23.04.1910: a company is to be established to treat the sludge at this mine site using cyanide.Heritage Inventory Description
UNION CO - Heritage Inventory Description
The concrete foundation at the south end of the Union Co mine site is 4.2m by 3m.Ten metresnorth of this foundation there is a pile of rocks and a single holding down bolt on the southern edge of an irregular mullock and quartz wash heap which covers an area approximately 120m by 80m by 4m high. The irregular heap of quartz wash 20m north covers an area approximately 100m by 60m and is between 1m and 3m high. A third heap of fine gravel covering an area 100m by 100m by 2m high is 100m east of the first heap. A large portion of this heap has been removed. There are two dry dams separated by a raised track formation between this and the first heap.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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UNNAMED MINE - POSSIBLY PITFIELD Q & CVictorian Heritage Inventory
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REAL ESTATE COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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EAST ESTATE COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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