NUGGETTY AJAX COMPANY
AJAX ROAD AND MIDLAND HIGHWAY DAYLESFORD, HEPBURN SHIRE
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NUGGETTY AJAX COMPANY - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: Nuggetty Ajax Company was floated to work the Nuggetty and Ajax lines of reef. In 1905 the company installed a powerful winding plant over an old disused shaft (the former Nuggetty Company's shaft) and by 1907 were crushing ore in their own 10-head battery. The company's mining operations were relatively unsuccessful despite undertaking considerable underground developmental work. The mine closed down in the early 1920s, the company having sunk the shaft to a depth of 942 feet.Heritage Inventory Description
NUGGETTY AJAX COMPANY - Heritage Inventory Description
Mining machinery - Large brick engine bed, 25ft x 3ft, standing 10ft with adjoining winder bed, 12ft x 6ft. All mounting bolts have been removed. Battery site - Immediately south of the brick beds are some largely buried concrete footings - possible stamper foundations.To the north of the brick beds is an arrangement of small concrete mounting beds. The beds are obscured by high grass and a fallen tree.Mullock heap. Abutting the arrangement of small concrete beds is a large, partly quarried dump which is covered by dense scrub.Water dam - Below the mine site is a large (full) water dam.
Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has:Scientific significance - well preserved range of foundations; the site also has some archaeological potentialPossible archaeological potentialNetwork values -part of the Ajax-Nuggetty network of sites, and also a landscape feature.SIGNIFICANCE RANKING: Regional
Recorded by: David Bannear
Heritage Inventory Site Features: Mining machineryBattery siteConcrete mounting bedsMullock heapWater dam
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NUGGETY DAMVictorian Heritage Inventory
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AJAX LEADVictorian Heritage Inventory
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EIGHTY FOOT SANDSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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