Old Tom Reef Mine, Alluvial Workings and Cyanide Works and Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine

CA 4 Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road, WOODVALE VIC 3556 - Property No 198895

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Old Tom Reef Mine and Alluvial Workings

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  • Physical Description 1

    Old Tom Reef Mine, Alluvial Workings and Cyanide Works and Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine - Physical Description 1

    Old Tom Reef Mine and Alluvial Workings

    Mine site: 40 metre-long mullock heap with one dumping line running north from a filled shaft. The heap has been partially quarried. 20 metres south is a scatter of red hand-made bricks and rough concrete rubble. Further south there are smaller mullock dumps and a line of shallow reef workings.

    Surface workings: 30 metres west of the mullock dump, running north, is a line of small mullock paddocks, terminating in a shallow open cut. On the same line to the south, in an area north and west of the most southerly section of reef workings there is an area of hydraulic sluicing. West of the cyanide works and along Scotchman Gully there are patches of shallow alluvial workings.

    Battery site: On the eastern side of the open-cut is a small mullock paddock, below which is a spread of hand-made red bricks and fire bricks. Near this rubble is a dry dam, with traces of battery sand nearby.

    Puddling machine site: 10 metres north of the water race is the outline of a 20 foot diameter puddling machine. The central mound retains its wooden post and fragments of timber side-boarding are still present in the puddling trench. Water was fed to the puddling machine from the race by a pipe, now largely buried.

    The dumps are weathered and partially quarried, but the puddling machine is in good condition.

    Physical Description 2

    Old Tom Reef Mine, Alluvial Workings and Cyanide Works and Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine - Physical Description 2

    Old Tom Reef Mine and Alluvial Workings

    The approximately triangular site is bounded on the south-west by the Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road, on the north by Scotsmans Track and on the east by Old Tom Road between the Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road and the Raywood Channel and by the Raywood Channel between Old Tom Road and Scotsmans Track.

    Physical Description 3

    Old Tom Reef Mine, Alluvial Workings and Cyanide Works and Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine - Physical Description 3

    Old Tom Reef Cyanide Works

    North of Old Tom Mine, across a concrete-lined water race, is a dump of treated battery sand, which has apparently been shifted from near the battery. On top of the sand dump is a line of depressions signifying three 22 foot diameter cyanide vats. The corrugated iron of which the vats were originally constructed has apparently rusted away. North of the vats is the circular depression for a drainage vat

    Physical Description 4

    Old Tom Reef Mine, Alluvial Workings and Cyanide Works and Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine - Physical Description 4

    Old Tom Reef Cyanide Works

    The approximately triangular site is bounded on the south-west by the Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road, on the north by Scotsmans Track and on the east by Old Tom Road between the Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road and the Raywood Channel and by the Raywood Channel between Old Tom Road and Scotsman Track.

    Physical Description 5

    Old Tom Reef Mine, Alluvial Workings and Cyanide Works and Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine - Physical Description 5

    Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine

    North of Scotsmans Track is a line of reef workings, about 150 metres in length, running approximately north-south . The workings consist of three collapsed shafts and some shallow open-cutting, from which leads an adit. Several shafts have been sunk onto the underlying drive.

    Physical Description 6

    Old Tom Reef Mine, Alluvial Workings and Cyanide Works and Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine - Physical Description 6

    Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine

    The site is approximately rectangular, bounded on the south by the Raywood Channel and extending northwards for a distance of 50 metres either side of the workings along the reef.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Greater Bendigo - Marong Heritage Study 1999

    Author: Andrew Ward and Associates
    Year: 1999
    Grading: Local

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