ARGYLE CO.

49 LINTON-NARINGHIL ROAD LINTON, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    ARGYLE CO. - History

    Contextual History:History of Place:
    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    ARGYLE CO., Linton, (private property)
    12.1871: considerably improved since it was let on tribute.
    22.09.1873: tributers have finished their contract; company taken possession of the mine again; machinery is being repaired and the reef drive is being carried on steadily; the yield from the black sand and sludge prior to the stoppage was 22 ozs.
    12.1873: prospects are improving.
    30.10.1875: ceased operations.
    03.1876: prospecting has produced excellent results.
    12.1880: improvement in the quality of the ground being worked.
    12.1881: the only deep lead mining company operating in this locality; continues to be steadily worked.
    07.1874 to 12.1874: recorded production of 856 ozs or 26.625 kg.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    ARGYLE CO. - Heritage Inventory Description

    /nA very large mine site that is dominated by large mullock and quartz wash stone heaps laid out in fingers around the shaft in a pattern which resembles the wings of a butterfly. The mullock and quartz heaps are virtually intact, with only a small amount of material having been removed from between the south and north sections of the heaps. The south section has six fingers, five of which are mullock, the sixth one on the north is quartz wash. The three southern most fingers have a few bush timber poles 0.1 to 0.15 m in diameter protruding from them. These poles appear to be the remains of the tramway that was used to dump the mullock. The northern half of the heaps has seven fingers and all are quartz wash. The mullock heap fingers are up to 90 m long between 15 and 30 m wide and approximately 9 m high. The quartz wash heaps are between 100 and 65 m long and 7 m high. The fingers of quartz wash are not as distinctly separate as the fingers of the mullock heap, and the end of these heaps cover a distance of approximately 120 m. There are two badly corroded ore trucks lying on the quartz heaps. There a few small heaps of gravel and quartz approximately 10 m in diameter located just north and west of the shaft. The shaft has a fence around it and is heavily overgrown. I presume that it is still open. A depression with some basalt rocks lining its western edge runs south from the east side of the shaft. This depression seems wider than that required for a pump bob pit. A cast and wrought iron fan structure is partially buried in the depression. Immediately west of the depression is a 12 m by 10 m by 0.5 to 1.0 m high mound of earth and basalt rock, which appears to have been the foundation of a structure. ARTEFACTS: 1. A cast and wrought riveted and bolted fan structure. It is semicircular in shape with four blades or paddles enclosed inside the semi-circular structure and connected by iron spokes to a drive shaft which has an iron belt pulley attached to the end. Its overall dimensions are 0.92 by 0.45 by 0.4 metres with the pulley protruding an extra 0.26 m from one side. Half of the structure is buried. 2. Badly corroded ore trucks measuring 0.75 m by 0.46 m by 0.75 m deep with a wrought iron (rectangular cross-section) bar held to the truck with rivets and bent to form hooks at each end for coupling to the next truck.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: Local, although intact its isolation from other features limits its significance

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