NORTH PORT ARTHUR CO

LINTON-PIGGOREET ROAD PIGGOREET, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    NORTH PORT ARTHUR CO - History

    Contextual History:History of Place:
    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    North Port Arthur Co., Piggoreet
    23/06/1906: trial crushing has been done
    Reference: Grenville Standard p.1 c.6
    20/10/1906: whim delivery and being erected
    Reference: Grenville Standard p.6 c.4
    02/03/1906: directors have resolved to erect a substantial winding plant
    Reference: Grenville Standard p.6 c.1
    20/04/1907: a complete winding plant has been purchased from Messrs Buchanan & Hoare of Ballarat
    Reference: Grenville Standard p.6 c.4
    03/08/1907: machinery finished and sinking resumed
    Reference: Grenville Standard p.1 c.6
    07/03/1908: order granted to wind up the company
    Reference: Grenville Standard p.1 c.7
    1907: Recorded production of 1oz 14dwt from 4 tons (or 0.053kg from 4 tonnes).
    Reference: GEDIS Ballarat Mine Data, October 1993

    Heritage Inventory Description

    NORTH PORT ARTHUR CO - Heritage Inventory Description

    This site is relatively intact and contains some interesting features which provide useful information for understanding this site. There is a substantial depression where the shaft was located.Twelve metresnorth of the shaft are the start of the remains of a substantial stone boiler setting. The boiler setting is made of rocks set into two parallel 0.6m thick walls running north south for 8.7m. The width from the outside of one to the outside of the other is 3.9m. The boiler setting finishes at a pile of bricks and a further 2 m south from the end of the stone walls is another stone wall running east west approximately 3.9m long topped with bricks. The walls are up to 1.1m high and is the most substantial and best preserved boiler setting in this division. There is also a section of broken brick wall lying on the east side of the southern end of the boiler setting, and a section of the face plate of the boiler at the northern end of the boiler setting wall./nThe mullock heap is locatedfive metreseast of the shaft. It is intact, conical in shape 12.5m in diameter and 3.5m high./nTen metreswest of the northern end of the boiler setting is a relatively clear flat area in which there is a short section of the base of a brick wall. This wall does not appear to a foundation for some machinery./n

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    Heritage Inventory Site Features: A section of front plate which has been cut from the boiler. It is in the shape of a ring. Its outer diameter is 1.96m and it is 0.66m wide with the brackets attached which stiffened the structure and attached the front plate to the rest of the boiler. There are inspection numbers and dates stamped into the face of this piece of boiler plate.

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