COSSTICK'S BATTERY (FORMERLY CROYDON CO.)
675 POSSUM GULLY ROAD TALBOT, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
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COSSTICK'S BATTERY (FORMERLY CROYDON CO.) - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
1860's: Prince of Wales mine crushings at Cosstick's battery (Also known as Croydon battery) .
June 1872: Laura Reef (Croydon Co-operative Company) has had an average yield of above 6 dwt to the ton, with a lode 16 feet in thickness... the lode has been worked for about 12 years.
September 1872: Laura Reef has produced a greater amount of stone with a larger average yield than formerly. The mine has an immense amount of stone, being more like a quarry than a quartz lode for quantity.
June 1874: Laura Reef has given slightly improved yields, will give good wages to men employed.
September 1875: A rich quartz load recently struck in the Croydon Co.'s ground.
December 1885: A party at Havelock have had 31 tons of quartz crushed at Mr Cosstick's mill within this division, yielding 208 oz 15 dwt gold.
June 1887: Dunstone and party's claim, the 'Last Chance' - 112 oz 4 dwt from 363 tons. Best parcel yielded 49 oz 13 dwt.
1894: The Laura Reef, near Amherst, gave excellent returns for a long time at an average of 5 dwt to the ton, the reef having a thickness from 10 to 15 feet.Heritage Inventory Description
COSSTICK'S BATTERY (FORMERLY CROYDON CO.) - Heritage Inventory Description
(Reef has been worked from 1860. A battery was operating on the reef during the 1870s and was still working in the mid 1880s)/nOpen cut/stope - Long, narrow open cut/stope which has been partly bulldozed and filled. The southern end of the open cut still relatively intact. /nMullock heap - On the western side of the intact section of the open cut/stope is a mullock heap with four short dumping lines. /nMachinery site - Near the mullock heap are some flattened machinery foundations (spread of brick, stone and mortar rubble) and a partly buried concrete winder bed. /nTailings dump - In the gully to the west of the mine workings, on cleared freehold land, is an extensive dump of tailings.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local Integrity of the site reduced as to have very little interpretive value. Site may have some potential to yield archaeological artefacts.
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COSSTICK'S BATTERY (FORMERLY CROYDON CO.)Victorian Heritage Inventory
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