REEDY CREEK SAWMILL, MINE AND TRAMWAY

STRATH CROSSING TRACK CLONBINANE, MITCHELL SHIRE

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    REEDY CREEK SAWMILL, MINE AND TRAMWAY - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site: The Reedy Creek Timber Mill opened at the Tonsil Mine Site in 1912. It used the mine machinery, the mine having closed the previous year, and operated until 1916.Source: L.R.R.S.A. (1989) Wandong Wander Tour Notes.

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    REEDY CREEK SAWMILL, MINE AND TRAMWAY - Heritage Inventory Description

    The only features at the overgrown mine and mill site are a possible mullock heap, a couple of trenches, and some iron artefacts. A well constructed incline tramway leads down the Tonsil Spur toward Reedy Creek. The sleepers were closely spaced and drains were placed along the tramway. The mechanisms to control the cable are still embedded in a tree stump about 500 metres down the tramway.

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