SOUTH PITFIELD CONSOLS CO.
TWENTY ACRE ROAD ILLABAROOK, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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SOUTH PITFIELD CONSOLS CO. - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
26.06.1900: completed the horse puddling machine to test the wash.
17.08.1900: the Pentagon Co.'s puddling plant will probably be purchased by this company.
05.10.1900: puddling machines have been delivered.
09.11.1900: erecting steam puddling machines, all the legs are hoisted and other portions of the work are well advanced.
04.01.1901: one of the newest producers.
19.01.1901: opening out satisfactorily and when the pumping plant is erected good results should be obtained.
12.01.1901: the number one steam puddler was successfully started.
09.03.1901: contractors erecting pumping plant.
04.05.1901: pumping plant almost completed.
11.1901: recorded production of 1753 ozs 7 dwt (or 54.536 kg).
22.11.1901: directors have decided to let the mine on tribute.
06.12.1901: operations suspended and mine to be wound up.Heritage Inventory Description
SOUTH PITFIELD CONSOLS CO. - Heritage Inventory Description
/nThere are several features at this site, which is one of the few that has not been disturbed too much. The shaft is a depression which has now been filled with rubbish. The machinery foundations are located north of the shaft. The front section of both walls of the brick pump bob pit have broken away and collapsed. The rear section of the pit butts up against the brick winder foundation. There is a second brick foundation east of the winder. North of both this and the winder foundations there are basalt rock foundations set in concrete. There is also a line of rocks set in concrete along the east side of the other foundations. East of the shaft and foundations is an 0.3 m high mound of fine quartz wash covering an area of approximately 30 m in diameter. Two intact mullock heaps are located directly in line south of the shaft. The first is 50 m by 35 m by 7 m high, and the second immediately south is conical, 25 m in diameter and 4 m high. The quartz wash heap is on the east side of the mullock heap and runs south from the shaft. It has two fingers 15 m wide and 6 m high, and 50 and 40 m long respectively. In addition to the features that surround the shaft , there is a low embankment which commences 100 m east of the shaft and runs south for 100 m and then west. This was apparently used to control the slume from the mine.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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PITFIELDS CONSOLS COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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OLD PITFIELD DIGGINGSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GOLDEN EMPIRE COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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