UNITED CO

MEADOWS ROAD ROKEWOOD, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    UNITED CO - History

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    ROKEWOOD UNITED Co,
    23.12.1895: bricklayers preparing bed for boilers commence housing in Monday.
    06.01.1896: all machinery nearly erected; all material on ground for the building of a blacksmith shop.
    20.01.1896: their splendid machinery almost complete and will start sinking on Monday; it is as complete a plant as one would find in the colony.
    01.02.1896: report of starting of the machinery; part of the revival in mining in the district; plant includes 15 inch cylinder by 3 foot stroke engine with link motion, a boiler 20 foot by 5 foot; the engine is well housed and there is a substantial blacksmith shop at the mine.
    01.01.1897: ground not paying.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    UNITED CO - Heritage Inventory Description

    At Hanlon No.2 the majority of the material has been removed reducing the mullock heap to a "mesa" 20 m in diameter and 5m high. On the southern side the heap has been extended to enclose a small powder magazine. The magazine, 1.2 by 1.2 by 1.2 metres is constructed of timber with a corrugated iron cladding on the outside with a slab of concrete 0.05m thick on the roof. The structure is lined and the space between the lining and the roof is insulated with sawdust. The mullock heap at the central is 20m in diameter and 4.5m high, and appears to be relatively intact. There is a circular concrete slab, 2.5m in diameter, on the south east corner at the base of the heap. The depression where the shaft was is 3m further south east. A rough stone structure set with cement mortar is located 28m east of the shaft depression. The walls of this structure are collapsing and do not seem strong enough to support any machinery. A badly corroded ore truck is lying on the east side of the mullock heap. At the United mine site there are two mullock heaps running north, 20m by 4m by 1.5m high, and north east, 50m by 10m by 2.5m, from where the shaft would have been. The first 12 metres has been removed from the heap that runs north east. There are a couple of small mounds west of the mullock heaps.

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