DEEP LEAD MINES, DERWENT JACK'S GULLY (1)

40 DONALD MCLEANS ROAD SPRINGDALLAH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    DEEP LEAD MINES, DERWENT JACK'S GULLY (1) - History

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    Site 97.02: The Ballarat Deep Leads and Mines, Geological Survey of Victoria 1:100,000 Deep Leads Map 6, sheet 1, published is 1992 by the Department of Energy and Minerals, Victoria puts the Magnum Bonum in this location. However reports in the Mining Surveyors and Registrars Reports of December 1864 describes the Magnum Bonum Co. at Derwent Jacks as having steam power, not a whim and horse puddler.

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    DEEP LEAD MINES, DERWENT JACK'S GULLY (1) - Heritage Inventory Description

    Site 97.01: The mullock heap is the only substantial feature at this site. It is 25m in diameter and up to 4m high. A depression holding water is located north of the heap, and there is a small amount of quartz in the grass to the east of this depression./nSite 97.02: A depression exists where the shaft was located. 6 m north of the shaft is a rectangular depression cut into the slope that is 7 m by 6 m. This feature/formation has an embankment on its east side, it could either have been where a building was sited or alternatively it may have been a dam. A circular formation or whim platform is located on the west side of the shaft. It is 9m in diameter and has a small rectangular depression/hole in the centre. The centre of the horse puddler is 7m south east of the centre of the shaft. The horse puddler is 6m in diameter and is surrounded on its southern side by small mounds of quartz wash. It is in fair to poor condition, the central mound still has a piece of the wooden post in the centre. However the sides of the trench and central earth pillar have slumped and are no longer vertical. The final feature at this site is the mullock heap which is 20m long spreading out to be 22m wide at its eastern end, and up to 2m high. The north side of the mullock heap has eroded slightly./nThis site is located is an open grazing paddock and the puddler and whim have deteriorated. However despite this weathering this collection of features is interesting and readily interpretable./nSite 97.03: This site has a mullock heap 25 m by 20 m by 4 m high, on the south end of this heap is a depression where the shaft would have been. A heap of quartz wash and mullock 10 m in diameter and 2.5 m high is located south of this depression, with a scatter of quartz wash on the west of this heap. This site has been disturbed./nSite 97.04: This small scale deep lead mine site has all the features that show how it operated. However the horse puddler and the whim platform are in poor condition having been eroded and suffering the effects of grazing. A depression marks the position of the shaft. The whim platform is south east of the shaft. It is 12 m in diameter is surrounded by a trench except for a path onto the platform. The horse puddler is north west of the shaft position and is 7 m in diameter. There are small mounds of quartz wash north, south and west of the puddler. The mullock north of the shaft has two fingers, one is 20 m and the other is 10 m long. These heaps are 1.5 m high and approximately 5 m wide./nSite 97.05: The mullock heap and quartz wash heap at this site are substantially intact. The mullock is 35 m long by 20 m wide by 4 m high. It has a protrusion on its east side where a second finger had been started, and there are a couple of pieces of timber protruding from the top of the heap. The main part of the quartz wash heap is at the southern end of mullock heap. This section is 20 m in diameter and 3 m high, and the wash spreads out over an area 25 m by 24 m. The quartz wash is disturbed and seems to have been pushed about.

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