NEW SULTAN REEF MINE

LERDERDERG TRACK BLACKWOOD, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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    NEW SULTAN REEF MINE - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site: The New Sultan Company was a spectacularly unsuccessful mining venture of the early 1880s. This company, which took over a lease once held by the Mounter Brothers, and the Township Reef Company (late Sultana Company), installed a very large and expensive mining plant. Within two years the company had closed down and the plant was being removed from the mine: ie., September 1883 it was reported that the last remaining plant - a 80hp engine, chilian mill, pumping gear and a chimney stack - was in the process of being removed from the site.

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    NEW SULTAN REEF MINE - Heritage Inventory Description

    Mullock heap - Large mullock heap with three dumping lines and open shaft.Mining machinery - North of the shaft is an arrangement of decaying bedlogs.Battery - Benched platform with decaying mortar blocks (10-head of stamps). To the west is 5 metre wide sludge pond.Boiler - Well preserved stone boiler setting measuring 14ft x 101/2ft. Walls are 2ft thick and 5ft high. The north wall of the boiler setting has partly collapsed but most of the settings internal brickwork survives. Stack base - 6ft square stone stack base at rear of boiler setting.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has:Scientific significance - because of the intactness of the relicsArchaeological potential - particularly the relatively intact, but largely buried, boiler setting

    Recorded by: David Bannear

    Heritage Inventory Site Features: -mullock heap - mining machinery, bedding - battery, platform- boiler, setting- stack base

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