UNION QUARTZ MINING COMPANY
BLACKSMITH GULLY ROAD AMHERST, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
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UNION QUARTZ MINING COMPANY - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
December 1878: Union Quartz Mining Co., Church Hill, sinking new shaft to depth of 180 feet and erecting new steam machinery.
September 1879: Union Quartz Mining Co., Church Hill, crushed 86 tons for 260 oz gold
June 1884: Union Quartz Mining Co., 420 tons yielded 871 oz 3 dwt - average 2 oz 11 dwt per ton. 35 men employed.
September 1884: Only dividend for quarter - £97 13s by Union Quartz Mining Co. of Dunach. Scarcely a dividend, as the claim is not paying wages to tributers. The above amount was paid by tributers to original shareholders. Total yield for quarter less than 48 oz.
June 1885: Union Co. shortly to resume work.
September 1885: The old Union Quartz Mine, Amherst, purchased by Edward Morey, of Ballarat, and renamed the Daisy Hill Quartz Mining Co.. 'It is hoped that the mine will now be opened with something like an enterprising spirit."
March 1891: Morrison and party continue to get payable gold.
1917: Deepest shaft in districtHeritage Inventory Description
UNION QUARTZ MINING COMPANY - Heritage Inventory Description
/nReef (Company operated from late 1870s to mid 1880s) Mullock heap - Large, partly quarried mullock heap. Machinery site - On the north-east corner of the heap is a flattened machinery site (brick, stone and mortar rubble)
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local Integrity of the site reduced as to have very little interpretive value. May have some archaeological potential to yield artefacts.
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EUCALYPTUS DISTILLING PLANT & SHALLOW WORKINGSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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UNION QUARTZ MINING COMPANYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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