MONTE CRISTO CO
NEWTOWN-BERRINGA ROAD NEWTOWN, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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MONTE CRISTO CO - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
MONTE CHRISTO CO. (party of 24 men) working in the vicinity of Browns Pre-emptive Right at Italian Gully
08.1859: claim of 480,000 superficial feet; sinking a third shaft on the opposite reef from the first two; present depth is 90 feet.
01.1860: paying.
07.1860: company dissolved and a new one organised to re-occupy the ground.Heritage Inventory Description
MONTE CRISTO CO - Heritage Inventory Description
Site 124.10 has three parts./nThe southern part has separate mullock and quartz wash heaps. The site of the shaft is not obvious. The mullock is in a V-shape with the fingers 25-30 m long running in a southerly direction from where the shaft must have been. The point from which the quartz wash emanates is 18m north of the mullock heap. One branch of the quartz wash runs 30m south east from this point and is 9m wide and 2.5m high. The other branch runs north east. It is 35m long, 10m wide and up to 3m high, with a gap of 10m through the middle where the heap has been pushed out of the way to allow a fence to be constructed. Although there has been some disturbance to the quartz wash the layout of this part of the site still reflects how this site operated. The central part of the site is 40-50m north west of the southern part. It has both a mullock heap and quartz wash heap. The mullock heap runs north west from where the shaft must have been. This heap is 40m by 12-16m and is 3-4 m high, and has some small sections branching off its north side. The quartz wash is fanned around the east and south of where the shaft must have been. The wash is spread around in a band 5m wide with four fingers radiating off the ring. These fingers are between 5-10m long and approximately 5m wide. The layout of the wash gives the impression that it has been deposited from a horse puddler, but there is no sign of such a feature. A small dried up dam is located 20 m south west of the centre of this site. A horse puddler is located 10m north east of the northern end of the mullock heap. This puddler formation is has a central pillar of earth 3m in diameter and a trench 1.8m wide. The formation being 0.6m higher than the surrounding level. The puddler has a softened appearance. The northern part of the site is 40m north of the horse puddler, and consists of a mullock heap 20m by 15m by 4m high and a quartz wash heap north west of the mullock heap which is 15m by 10m by 3m high. The area between the heaps is infested with blackberries and it is not possible to find the location of the shaft. The ground north of the mullock heap is covered with fine quartz wash. This site is quite interesting, especially the central part where it appears that a horse puddler was used. The northern and southern parts of the site may have used aerial puddlers. Further research and site investigation may help understand this site.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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