ALPHA CO

LINTON-PIGGOREET ROAD PIGGOREET, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

All information on this page is maintained by Heritage Victoria. Click below for their website and contact details.

Victorian Heritage Inventory

Statement of Significance

• Additional Place Information

  • History

    ALPHA CO - History

    Contextual History:History of Place:
    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    Alpha Company: location given as east of the Try Again claim and north of the Grand Trunk:
    03/1864: not yet into deep ground (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, in P.Miller, TR 86/4, p.728)
    06/1864: struck the deep ground, some of which may be capable of yielding 20 ozs per machine (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, in P.Miller, TR 86/4, p.729. Robertson 1927 p6)
    09/1864: obtains returns of about 60ozs per week, being a small company it produces a good profit (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, in P.Miller, TR 86/4, p.732)
    12/1864: struck excellent ground and obtaining 13ozs per machine (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, in P.Miller, TR 86/4, p.734)
    03/1865: one of the principal mines at Springdallah (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, in P.Miller, TR 86/4, p.738)
    06/1865: not doing much at present (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, in P.Miller, TR 86/4, p.740)
    09/1865: paying its way at present but is expected to do better (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, in P.Miller, TR 86/4, p.743)
    1865: shares sold at £175 each, obtained 92 ounces in one week which gave a weekly dividend of £5 per share (Reference: Robertson 1927,p7)
    03/1865-11/1865: recorded production of 3481 ozs 9 dwt 16 gr (or 108.289kg) (Reference: GEDIS Ballarat Mine Data, October 1993)
    03/1866: nearly worked out (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, in P.Miller, TR 86/4, p.747)
    06/1870: Grank Trunk, Golden Lane and Golden Horn companies have been flooded out; in addition to their own excellent pumping machinery the Golden Lake and Golden Horn Companies have erected powerful pumping machinery at the abandoned shaft of Alpha Co. (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, in P.Miller, TR 86/4, p.766).

    Heritage Inventory Description

    ALPHA CO - Heritage Inventory Description

    This site is now the carpark at the end of the road which runs into Devils Kitchen. It is completely flattened and not recognisable as a mine site.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: -

• Location map
• Explore related places
  • Show:
    -- select -- Nearby Places

  • ADITS EAST OF DEVILS KITCHEN

    

    Victorian Heritage Inventory
  • NORTH PORT ARTHUR CO

    

    Victorian Heritage Inventory
  • SOUTH PORT ARTHUR CO

    

    Victorian Heritage Inventory
• Public contributions