REEF MINES
JUBILEE ROAD STAFFORDSHIRE REEF, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
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REEF MINES - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
NORTH JUBILEE CO., Long Gully
19.01.1901: sinking the shaft further.
20.12.1902: will commence erecting a winding plant after the holidays; have retimbered the shaft down to the water table at 120 feet.
10.01.1903: levelling on the surface near the shaft to allow the erection of a steam winch
31.01.1903: plant from the New Caxton Co. mine was moved to this mine.
14.02.1903: boiler being bedded and poppet legs are being raised over the No.2 shaft.
31.03.1903: finishing off the battery.
28.11.1903: slate intermixed with the formation which also carries a high percentage of mineral; takes a high flow of water to keep the plates and ripples clear, as the gold is very fine; no doubt a good percentage of it will be saved in the concentrates; two wilfley tables are used in addition to the canvas tables.
12.12.1903: suspended operations after a poor result from working the 10 head battery for only one month.
19.12.1903; resumed operations.
30.01.1904: repairing the connecting rod for the winding engine.
13.05.1905: has a 10 head battery.
10.03.1906: compelled to close after several years of prospecting; gold was found but not in large enough quantities.
30.06.1906: winding plant from this mine was moved to the South Port Arthur at Piggoreet.Heritage Inventory Description
REEF MINES - Heritage Inventory Description
Site No.127.01 consists of a large intact mullock heap orientated east west it is 60m by 30m by 8m high. Two small fingers 2m high and 30m by 2m and 25m by 4m respectively run north east from the north side of the heap, and appear to have been partly covered by the large heap. The depression where the shaft used to be is 5m west of the mullock heap. The large dam, 90m by 40m, is a further ten metres west. There is no sign of a battery or quartz wash, so it is likely to have been a quartz reef mine with any ore being taken to the Jubilee battery./nSite No.127.02 also has an intact mullock heap which emanates from where the shaft would have been. The heap haseight fingers along which mullock was deposited and covers an area 55m long by 25m at the north west end and 35m to 40m at the south east end. The mullock heap is level across the top and is 2.5m high, with the depression where the shaft was located in the west corner. There are some broken pieces of concrete north west of the mullock heap and a 20m by 16m dam is 20m north west the mullock heap. There is no quartz wash at this shaft which suggests that this was a quartz reef mine with the ore being processed at the Jubilee battery.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional
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JUBILEE COMPANY QUARTZ GOLD MINEVictorian Heritage Register H1762
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DEEP LEAD MINES (4)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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JUBILEE COVictorian Heritage Inventory
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