Lord Nelson Company, St Arnaud SITE NO. & NAME: 68.0 LORD
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Lord Nelson Company, St Arnaud SITE NO. & NAME: 68.0 LORD NELSON TAILINGS DUMPS 68.1 LORD NELSON MINE SITE LOCATION: CHRYSOLITE HILL, ST ARNAUD HI NO: 68.0 H7524-0039 68.1 H7524-0040 DIRECTIONS: St. Arnaud, tailings are located on the north side of Millet-Dally Road, and the battery foundations are in Pioneer Park, just north of the new swimming pool MUNICIPALITY: Northern Grampians Shire LAND STATUS: Unreserved Crown Land HISTORY: March 1860 (St Arnaud Division). The leaders on Chrysolite Hill, being worked by Doveton, Munch and Company, 1 are still looking well, and by report will yield over 10 oz per ton, this crushing. November 1860 (St Arnaud Division). At the St Arnaud Gold Mining Company’s lease no great improvement has taken place since my last. They have succeeded in breaking through the western reef about eight feet thick, and are continuing their present level (at 100 feet) to strike the eastern reef. The western reef has but little prospect of gold in it, the shaft, in my opinion, being too far south; the same rule holding good on this and nearly every other reef on St Arnaud and that which I explained in my September report of the Chripolite and Ballaarat Reefs, viz. the dip of gold continuing with the strike of reef. On the northern end of this reef (Sebastopol) I washed from five buckets of debris 2 about 1/1-2 dwt of gold. January 1861 (St Arnaud Division). On the older reefs things are still dull, except at Wilson’s Hill, Chrysolite Hill, and Sebastopol, where either machinery is being erected or preparations made for the erection thereof. Messrs Grierson and Company are also erecting machinery on the Chrysolite Hill and have applied for a lease of the 3 same. April 1861 (St Arnaud Division). At the Chrysolite Hill, on the so called Musical Reef, No. 1 East has succeeded in striking what they presume to be payable quartz. From the Prospect Claim a kiln of quartz supposed to yield 7 or 8 oz per ton was lately crushed; from the first 5 tons they obtained a yield of between 5 and 6 oz per ton; the remaining 11 tons when crushed did not yield 1/2 an oz per ton, an apparent mystery that has not yet been solved; the quartz when landed from the shaft being thrown carelessly on the kiln to be burned, from thence carted to the machine and deposited outside, to be wheeled in barrows and weighed as required, so that it would seem almost impossible for them not to be well mixed, and from which a trial of 5 or 6 tons should be a fair sample; whether from a fault or defect in the mill or an unexampled peculiarity in the quartz, is as yet unknown, no such result has ever yet been found by using the same mill. Messrs Gurison, Edgar, and Company have nearly completed the erection of their engine, &c. for pumping and crushing from their deep shaft, situate on lease south of St Arnaud United Company. The progress of this company is watched with great interest by many ... The shaft at present is over 200 feet in depth. The piping on the ground is 4 Co. Anderson’s patent paper pipe, the use and result of which is watched with more than usual interest. May 1861 (St Arnaud Division). On the Chrysolite Hill, Messrs Edgar and party have completed all their works, and the engine is I believe to be set in motion to day, so that this reef (the Ballaarat) providing the company are not 5 deceived in the capability of their engine, &c., will at last have a fair trial. June 1864 (St Arnaud North Subdivision). Quartz crushed during the quarter by/from: Yarra’s engine (from sundry small workings around) Butcher’s engine ditto St Arnaud United Wilson’s Hill Chrysolite Company Chrysolite Hill Greenock Reef Prospecting Co., No. 1 & 2 South Main & Cross Reefs 6 Benson and Sutherland Spinster Reef 208 Lord Nelson Company, St Arnaud 209 Lord Nelson Company, St Arnaud December 1864 (St Arnaud North Subdivision) The total number is thus distributed: Scrub Rush 40 Silver Reefs 30 Sawpit Gully 8 Freyberg 15 Master’s Reef 2 Sanderske’s Reef 4 Chrysolite Hill 21 Bristol Reef 8 Schewring’s Reef 10 Gap Gully 40 Armenian Gully 4 New Bendigo 80 Wagner’s Hill (Mogg’s) 3 Peevor’s Flat (Mogg’s) 6 Douglas Hill 3 Frenchman’s 8 Bell’s Hill, Carapooree 12 Forty-feet Peter’s 14 Butcher’s Engine 7 Wier’s Hill 8 Brigg’s Hill 8 Greenock and Pioneer reefs 17 Spinster and Sailor’s reefs 4 Peter’s 304 Dogbury 19 Emu 4 Rostron’s 8 Salter’s Hill 12 Banshee 12 Quartz crushed during the quarter by/from: Silver Mining Association Bristol Reef, Sebastopol Reef Freyberg Clark’s Reef Butcher’s & Company crushing Sundry claims Stuart Mill Crushing Company Greenock or Sailor’s reefs, Pioneer Reef 7 Chrysolite Company Chrysolite claim 210 Lord Nelson Company, St Arnaud March 1865 (St Arnaud North Subdivision). The total number is thus distributed: Silver & Sebastopol Reefs 30 Sawpit Reef 2 Freyberg Company’s Works 17 Master’s Reef 3 Sanderske’s Reef 34 Chrysolite Hill 30 Bristol Reef 16 Schewring’s Reef 10 Gap Gully 19 Tunnel Hill 6 Carapoore banks 8 Karney’s 2 Armenian Gully 6 New Bendigo 54 Cochrane's Hill 10 Butcher’s Engine 4 Warwickshire Reef 4 Bell Rock 2 McCredie’s Engine 4 Greenock Reef 15 Spinster Reef 4 Pioneer Reef 2 Bell’s Hill 4 Frenchman’s Hill 12 Salter’s Hill 10 Peter’s Diggings 282 Bald Hills 4 Scrub Rush 6 Wier’s Hill 4 Dogbury 25 Banshee 10 Emu 17 Douglas Hill 24 Forty-feet 10 Brigg’s Hill 20 Quartz crushed during the quarter by/from: Silver Mining Association Sebastopol Reef Master’s and Party Edwards’ Reef Butcher’s and Company Crushing Various reefs Dower and Sawpit Reef Rimmer and Co. Ballarat Reef Sundry parties Bristol Reef Chrysolite Company Various reefs Sundry parties Greenock Reef 8 Benson and Partner Spinster’s Reef 211 Lord Nelson Company, St Arnaud March 1867 St. Arnaud North Subdivision (Mr. John Phillips). Distribution of miners: Bristol and Gap Reef 36 Bell Rock and neighbourhood 27 Jerjaw, Queen Mary, and neighbourhood 34 Sebastopol and Stewart’s Hill 31 Blink Bonny and neighbourhood 16 Wilson’s Hill and Chrysolite 35 Greenock Reef and neighborhood 7 McCredie’s and Butcher’s engine 9 John Bull Creek 30 Gap and Armenian Gullies 15 New Bendigo 145 Carapooee Creek, bottom and top 31 Emu Diggings 10 Quartz crushed during the quarter by/from: Malcolm and Co.’s Auld Reekie, Pioneer Reef, Chance Reef, Caledonia Reef Chrysolite Sanderski’s, Blink Bonny, Chrysolite, Bristol Reef, Robinson’s, Jerejaw Reef, Hopeful. Silver Mining Various claims McCredie’s Robinson’s Reef, Edgar’s claim. Excelsior (Masters) Gold and silver Butcher and Co. Various claims Quartz Tailings & Cement crushed: Chrysolite 9 McCredie’s Engine September 1867 St. Arnaud North Subdivision. Quartz crushed during the quarter by/from: Chapman and Co. (public crushing) Various reefs Bristol Reef (crushing) Various claims Chrysolite (public crushing) Various reefs Malcolm’s (public crushing) Caledonian and Fish-hook Reefs Lee and Co.’s (public crushing) Greenock Reef Sebastopol (crushing) Various places There are numerous reefs around us yielding gold to occasional small parties of miners. There are nearly as many reefs as quartz miners, and the privilege of picking out the golden spots and leaving the reefs all poor in sight is anything but conducive to steady work and regular mining. The tribute system here prevalent results in slovenly and personally unsafe mining, timbering and footways being neglected; the miner facing evident danger for a short time only, during his “take”, rather than preventing it at his own labour and expense. This last remark does not apply, however, to the Chrysolite tributors, who are working vigorously in spite of failure to get a drainage grant. The Bell Rock, the Bristol Reef, the Rising Star, the Greenock Reef, and perhaps other mines, may be regarded as 10 good and permanent; the Jerejaw, Chance, Blink Bonny, Hopeful, and Emu mines, coming in the rear with promise. December 1868 St Arnaud North Subdivision. Quartz crushed during the quarter by/from: Tributors Carr’s Lease Hoskin and Co. Wilson’s Hill Jerejaw Jerejaw Reef Sanderske and Co. Sanderske’s Lease Tributors Bell Rock Lease Johnsons and Co. Bristol Reef Cenel and Co. Garibaldi Lease Chapman Chrysolite Hill Rimmer and Co. Chrysolite Hill Perry and Co. Hopeful Reef Penberthy and Co. Blink Bonny Brown and Co. Warwickshire Reef Croyden and Co. Bristol Reef 212 Lord Nelson Company, St Arnaud Mount Emu Mount Emu Reef St. Arnaud Walker’s Lease Malcolm and Co. Fishhook Reef McMahon and Co. Bristol Reef 11 Prospectors Greenock Reef 213 Lord Nelson Company, St Arnaud March 1869 St. Arnaud North Subdivision (John Phillips). There is nothing of special interest to notice in the working or success of the established mines of the locality. The Bell Rock, Bristol Reef, Wilson’s Hill, Walker’s, 12 Trinidad, Chrysolite Hill, Greenock Reef and Isabelle Reef being pursued steadily, with fair yields. June 1869 (John Phillips). The Ballarat and St. Arnaud Company are down earlier to water in a new shaft than was thought of, and are now going to cross-cut at about 200 feet. There are a few who have faith in this enterprise of regaining the Chrysolite Hill veins in this direction at a proper depth, and I cannot but regard it as among the fair mining speculations.