YANKEE - BIG REEF WORKINGS

YANKEE ROAD LERDERDERG, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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    YANKEE - BIG REEF WORKINGS - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site: By the end of the 1855 Blackwood goldrush the Yankee or Union line of reef was being worked. The reef received little attention until 1869 when two companies - the Trojan, and Blackwood & Clunes - installed large and expensive mining plants. Both these companies failed, exhausting their capital on plant, rather than proving-up a profitable ore body. After the collapse of the two companies, the reef was mined in the 1870s and 1880s from two main localities; by the Victoria Company from the southern end of the line (former Trojan mine), and the Countess, from the northern end (possible Blackwood and Clunes mine site). The battery relics that now survive at the Trojan mine also shows that the reef was worked in, or later than, the 1930s.

    Heritage Inventory Description

    YANKEE - BIG REEF WORKINGS - Heritage Inventory Description

    Creek-levels adits - On the north side of Yankee Creek is a well defined benched track. This track runs east, then north around the base of a steep ridge. The most notable features associated with this track are: an open adit and small heap, open adit with three intact dumping lines, 50 metre long trackway cutting, and an open adit with six intact dumping lines.Ridge-top workings - Running along the ridge overlooking the Trojan mine are some undisturbed shallow reef workings. The most notable features are at least ten narrow cuttings from which shafts have been dropped. Several other cuttings run right through the ridge. Also several adits and benches on the slopes below the cuttings.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has:- scientific significance - because of the intactness and the range of adits, tracks and costeaning.- possible archaeological potential- network values - Yankee Creek workings, Trojan mine, Yankee-Big Reef workings, Countess CompanySIGNIFICANCE RANKING: Regional

    Recorded by: David Bannear

    Heritage Inventory Site Features: - adits, along the creek.- ridge top workings

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