FLINDERS COMPANY
QUARRY TRACK CARALULUP, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
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FLINDERS COMPANY - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
March 1885: Flinders Co. - shaft 229 ft - sunk by prospecting vote money. Beginning to open out.
September 1885: Flinders Co: pushing on with main drives, with government assistance. Taken up a prospecting claim, under the bye-laws, south of their lease..
March 1886: All Nations Reef intersects upper portion of new lead ("Association Rush" Reily's Gully, near Granite Hill, parish of Amherst) nearly at right angles..
1894: On the All Nations Reef a good deal of work has been done but without payable results, although 30 years ago stone averaging ½ oz to the ton was worked for half a mile along the line of reef down to water level, a depth of 150 to 160 feet.Heritage Inventory Description
FLINDERS COMPANY - Heritage Inventory Description
/nThe All Nations Reef was first worked in the mid 1860s when stone averaging 1/2 oz to the ton was obtained. The reef was worked for half a mile along the line of reef down to water level, a depth of 150 to 160 feet. The only attempt at large scale mining on the reef appears to have taken place in 1885 when the Flinders Company with the aid of money obtained from the Government's prospecting vote, sunk their shaft but were unable to find a profitable ore body 13.0: Flinders Company Mullock heap - Small partly quarried heap which partly covers an open cut. Machinery site - Near the north-west corner of the mullock heap is a flattened machinery site (red brick rubble, basalt and mortar). Visible amongst the rubble is the outline of a stone boiler setting. Open cut - Partly filled small open cut. Water dam - Small silted dam Sludge pond - Quarried sludge pond containing only traces of tailings. In the scrub above the pond, is a small mound of rubble which may well mark the site of the battery.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional. Site to be protected [mullock heap, open cut, dam, tailings, battery and mining machinery sites] The site has: Scientific significance: Contains a range of relics documenting quartz mining operations carried out on the site. Archaeological significance: The site has the potential to yield artefacts and evidence which will be able to provide significant information about the technological history of gold mining Network values: Reily's Gully puddler and Flinders mine.
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REILY'S GULLY PUDDLING MACHINEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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FLINDERS COMPANYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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