ANDERSONS FREEHOLD CO

49 LINTON-NARINGHIL ROAD LINTON, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    ANDERSONS FREEHOLD CO - History

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    ANDERSONS FREEHOLD COMPANY
    09.1872: a progressive claim from which good things are expected.
    28.01.1873: borrowing £1000; prospecting drive at 280 feet.
    04.03.1873: contract let to Messrs Moon & Co. for erecting machinery for £129; prospecting drive making fair progress.
    11.03.1873: erecting machinery; foul air caused a halt to prospecting drive; when level of Argyle determined will put in chamber and main drive.
    12.1873: prospects are improving.
    06.1874: promises to turn out well.
    01.1874 to 06.1874: recorded production of 165 ozs or 5.132 kg.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    ANDERSONS FREEHOLD CO - Heritage Inventory Description

    The mine consists of a substantially intact mullock heap 40m long by 10-12m wide and 4.5m high. The main axis of the heap runs 10 degrees east of north. The shaft, which is open for a short distance, is located at the southern end of the heap. The shaft is 3m long by 1.2m wide. A depression 1.0m wide and 0.5m deep, that may have been a pump bob pit runs south for 7.5 metres from the west side of the shaft. Another depression 7x7m is located at the south end of the suspected pump bob pit. This depression contains a scatter of basalt rocks and may have been the foundation for some machinery. Immediately west of this depression is another indistinct structure which contains a line of rocks along its eastern side. It is 7m long and 4m wide with raised mounds forming its east and west sides, which suggest that it was the boiler setting. There is also a very small mound of quartz wash immediately to the north-west of the shaft. Approximately 40 metres east of the shaft are a number of stone foundations, the tops of which are level with the surrounding paddock. These foundations cover an area about 40x40m, and include what appear to be the floors of two buildings and the outline of a path. There is a large collection of rocks next to the path. Between these foundations and the road there are other groups of rocks, two small dams and some lines of trees which suggests that there was some buildings nearer to the fence. This site has archaeological potential.

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