ATLAS CO

LINTON-PIGGOREET ROAD PIGGOREET, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    ATLAS CO - History

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    Scarsdale/Springdallah, on the table land above Devil's Kitchen and adjoining the Try Again Co.
    ATLAS COMPANY
    09.07.1863: the celebration/christening of the new engine a 30 hp made by the celebrated Scotch manufacturers Messrs Tennant and Co. of Glasgow and supplied by Messrs A. Macfarlan and Co. of Melbourne, which when complete will be second to none in the district; located between the Cleft in the Rock and the Try Again Companies; both giving splendid returns to the shareholders; the celebration was attended by many important guests including Mr and Mrs. Clarke; machinery consists of a superior 30 hp engine with winding and pumping gear etc., the gearing supplied by Messrs Robinson, Thomas and Co., Soho Works, Ballarat, the wheels are of superior casting and of large dimensions and weighing 30 and 35 cwt each. The spiders for the flat rope or chains are 5 foot 6 inches in diameter and weighing 16 cwt each. The poppet-heads, brace etc are very much beyond anything seen in this district being 50 feet in height, braced all round with double diagonal stays, the pulleys for flat ropes being 8 foot in diameter, a rather unusual size in this country.
    10.1863: still in rock and have a great quantity of water to contend with. -( this report was with the reports of mines at Scarsdale/Spring Dallah/Devil's Kitchen.)
    have a surplus each week after paying expenses.2
    03.1864: are still in rock.
    06.1864: nearly bottomed.
    09.1864: sinking in the table land above the Try Again Co.; have not yet bottomed.
    12.1864: down 220 feet and still in solid rock
    03.1865: not yet into deep ground.
    06.1865: expect to reach the gutter any day now.
    09.1865: bottomed and obtained an encouraging prospect.
    12.1865: struck into the wash-dirt and obtained a good prospect.
    1865: got through the rock, went down in reef and opened out at bottom in the first week in April, and were busy preparing plant for treating wash-dirt; shares are now worth £40 each.
    03.1866: struck good ground and have added the former Miners' Right Company ground to their claim.
    06.1866: paying reasonably well and it would be better except for the bottom rock being so hard.
    09.1866: weekly yield of 111 oz 16 dwt; has only just got into proper working order. [1.751]
    12.1866: swamped since the Scarsdale Extended ceased operations.
    09.1867: mine dry after many months of baling along the lead.
    1867: after restarting average weekly yield is 103 ozs.
    03.1868: yield for the quarter 1136 ozs 4 dwt 6 gr.
    06.1868: yield for the quarter 763 ozs 15 gr
    09.1868: yield for the quarter 951 ozs 15 dwt.
    12.1868: yield for the quarter 746 ozs 10 dwt 18 gr
    03.1869: yield for the quarter 665 ozs 5 dwt 12 gr
    1868 to 1869: recorded production of 4262 ozs 11 dwt 15 gr (or 132.584 kg).

    Heritage Inventory Description

    ATLAS CO - Heritage Inventory Description

    The features at this site are a substantially intact mullock heap 50m by 20m by up to 4m high, a small depression containing rocks where the shaft would have been, a disturbed/jumbled heap of quartz wash 80m long by up to 30m wide mounds within the heap are up to 3m high, and a collection of basalt rocks within an area 15m by 10m. There is one small section of walling with this area of rocks. The area of rocks is 5m north of the shaft and would have the site of the winder, boilers etc. Other features at this site include a section of open channel running east away from the mine, a fragment of solid brick masonry set with lime mortar 1.22 by 0.5 by 0.5m which seem to have no relationship to the original mining operation, and a section of stone lined drain 1m wide running east at the southern end of the quartz wash heap which appears to be the northern side of a road formation./nThis site has the remnants of the major features of a deep lead mine of this period with the mullock heap being the only substantially intact feature.

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