LUGAR CO.1

90 PORTERS ROAD SCARSDALE, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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    LUGAR CO.1 - History

    Contextual History:History of Place:
    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    LUGAR MINING Co.
    01.1860: applied for a 33 acre claim because of the success of the adjoining companies.
    06.1861: have not yet bottomed.
    07.1861: have not struck anything yet.
    10.1861: have not struck anything yet.
    12.1861: have struck the gutter after much labor and expense and their first machine has washed out 19 ozs.
    12.1861 to 12.1862: recorded production of 2,225 ozs 8 dwt (or 69.219 kg).

    Heritage Inventory Description

    LUGAR CO.1 - Heritage Inventory Description

    A depression, the likely shaft location, is located in the midst of two quartz wash heaps and a mullock heap. All the heaps have been pushed around. The quartz wash north east of the shaft has been spread over an area 25m by 20m, with the northern end 15m long by 10m wide and 2.5m high. The quartz wash heap north west of the shaft is 25m by 15m by 2m high. The mullock heap south west of the shaft is 20m long by 10m wide at one end and then turns the other way to be 10m long by 20m wide, in other words it is in the shape of a T. An open channel runs north east towards the Moonie Dam, another channel runs south east into a dam 20m by 17m.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: Not relevant

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