GLENFINE CONSOLS CO

GLENFINE ROAD WERNETH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    GLENFINE CONSOLS CO - History

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    GLENFINE CONSOLS Co.
    1899: presently sinking the main shaft; anticipating striking the quartz lodes found in the Glenfine South.
    26.01.1900: preparing to erect a battery and a large number of bricks are being manufactured at the mine.
    27.04.1900: intend erecting a rock boring plant to improve the progress with driving.
    08.06.1900: very encouraging for quartz mining; a possibility that this is the extension of the Glenfine South Co . lode.
    20.07.1900: steam puddling machines almost complete.
    31.08.1900: puddling in full swing.
    02.11.1900: interest is being shown in the gold bearing quartz leaders which indicate a quartz reef on a direct line south from the Glenfine South; also working the alluvial.
    04.01.1901: yield of 324 ozs for the year.
    10.02.1901: mining both quartz and alluvial deposits.
    25.05.1901: directors are considering the advisability of sinking another shaft to develop the quartz lode; a 5 head battery is to be erected to test the reefs.
    11.01.1902: commenced installing the steam plant at the No. 2 shaft.
    02.08.1902: small battery started to crush last Friday.
    08.1901 to 12.1903: recorded production of 154 ozs from 113 tons (or 4.79 kg from 113 tonnes).
    01.1901 to 03.1903: recorded production of 2760 ozs 14 dwt (or 85.869 kg).14

    Heritage Inventory Description

    GLENFINE CONSOLS CO - Heritage Inventory Description

    The shaft 4 m by 2 m is open for 6 m. The pump bob pit is on the north edge of the shaft and runs east. It is lined with rocks and some bricks set in concrete. Further east are the pumping foundations, covering an area approximately 11 m by 7 m, and then the winding foundations, covering an area of approximately 6 m by 6 m. Each of these sets of foundations has a large brick foundation on the north and a rough rock foundation pier south of the larger foundation. The rough foundations look as if the brick skin has been stripped from the rough inner core of rock and concrete. There are some small sections of stone walling, depressions and small piles of rocks in the grass south of these foundations, some archaeological work would be required to interpret these features. A scatter of quartz wash, 25 m by 20 m and up to 2 m high, is located 10 m south of the shaft. The mullock heap, 60 m by 45 m by 7 m high begins 15 m west of the shaft.

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