LADY ETHEL ALLUVIAL MINE

INDIANS ROAD BENALLA, BENALLA RURAL CITY

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    LADY ETHEL ALLUVIAL MINE - History

    Contextual History:History of Place:
    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    An 1899 plan of the (now) Reef Hills Park area shows alluvial claims in Lady Ethel Gully and in several other gullies in the vicinity of the reefs that were being worked at the same time. Ferguson's report of the same date, noted that alluvial miners were working by shaft, whim, puddler, tub, cradle and tin dish, there being insufficient water for sluicing. Of the several shafts along the alluvial lead in Lady Ethel Gully, that of the Lady Ethel claim (worked to 120 ft, then abandoned) had been the most successful.
    References: Ferguson, p. 15

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    LADY ETHEL ALLUVIAL MINE - Heritage Inventory Description

    Features of the Lady Ethel alluvial mine are a mullock heap, whim, puddler, and dam embankment.

    Heritage Inventory Significance:/nRegional

    Recorded By: David Bannear. Date recorded: 1994

    Heritage Inventory Key Components: /nMullock heap: Filled shaft and intact heap (10 m long x 1.5 m high) with five short dumping lines. /nWhim and puddler: 30ft-diameter raised whim platform and associated puddler. The 14ft-diameter puddler is very eroded (the inner mound and puddling trench have almost merged) and has no surviving pivot post or slabbing, or pebble-wash. Near the whim and puddler is a construction quarry. /nDam: The remains of a low earthen embankment across the gully marks the site of a dam.

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