HOTSPUR CO

GOLDEN LAKE ROAD NEWTOWN, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    HOTSPUR CO - History

    Contextual History:History of Place:
    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    12/1888: erected improved machinery (Reference: Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports, Smythsdale Division, In P. Milner, TR 86/4,P.810).
    1886-1895: gave employment to 15 men from Piggoreet during this period (Reference: Robertson 1927,p11).
    1892: had continual problems with bad air during the year (Reference: Ballarat Star)
    1892 &1893: when operating yielding 5-10 ozs per week (Reference: Ballarat Star)
    10/12/1894: decided to wind up the company; taking up the rails (Reference: Ballarat Star p4,c3)

    Heritage Inventory Description

    HOTSPUR CO - Heritage Inventory Description

    This site is surrounded by pine trees and has been significantly altered. The mullock is the only substantially intact feature at this stie. It is 30m x 25m and up to 5m high. There is no sign of the shaft. A heap of quartz wash and gravel runs east for 5m from the mullock heap and then turns south for 20m, this heap is 20m wide. A depression covering a fairly large area, which may have been a dam, is enclosed by the bend in the quartz wash heap. There is also a flat topped mound of gravel in this area. The purpose of this mound is unclear.

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