The Mines of South Australia, Including Also an Account of the Smelting Works in that Colony: Together with a Brief Description of the Country, and Incidents of Travel in the BushC. Platts, 1863 - 109 sider |
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10-fathom level 18 inches 20 fathoms amongst Angaston Angipena appearance average beautiful believe Blinman blue carbonates Burra Burra called Captain cent colony commenced considerable containing course creek cross-cut depth discovery distance drive East engine engine-shaft fathoms favorable feet in height feet wide four furnaces gossan grass green carbonate grey oxide ground gully gum trees hills horses indications ironstone Kadina Kanmantoo Kanyaka Kapunda land large quantity lode running Messrs metal Mining Company Monster Moonta Mount Hack Mount Remarkable native native Copper nearly neighbourhood North opened Patawarta pines Plain Port Adelaide Port Augusta present Princess Royal proprietors prove quartz raised range red oxide reef rich road rocky scrub shaft side situated smelting Snobs South Australia stains of Copper station stones stoping sulphuret sunk surface timber tons township travelled wages Wallaroo Wallaroo Mines West Wheal yards yellow Yelta yielded
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Side 47 - That whistle garrisoned the glen At once with full five hundred men, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given. Watching their leader's beck and will, All silent there they stood, and still. Like the loose crags whose threatening mass Lay tottering o'er the hollow pass, As if an infant's touch could urge Their headlong passage down the verge, With step and weapon forward flung, Upon the mountain-side they hung.
Side 15 - ... smelting works ceased altogether on 17th March, and were not resumed till March, 1855. " Nearly all the miners, also, left ; and it was with considerable difficulty the engine was kept going, and the Mine kept dry — at one time there were but four miners. During 1854, however, and especially...
Side 80 - Hundred of Kadina. This mine is one of the oldest in the district, and is mentioned by JB Austin in 1863* as follows: — "What appeared to be a fine lode was discovered on the surface, but it proved to be only a boil, and ran out in about three fathoms. Some fine galena was also met with in a similar way. A considerable amount of work was done, with the view of finding the lost lode, but without success. Three shafts were sunk, one of which was, at the time, the deepest on the Peninsula [Yorke],...
Side 86 - Ore was met with, and some beautiful specimens of native dendritic and foliated Copper were found both here and on Taylor's lode. Buchan's shaft has been lately sunk to 20 fathoms, and a fine lode of black and yellow Ore cut.
Side 19 - ... as soon as the survey was completed the land was divided by drawing a line through the centre from east to west. Lots were then drawn...
Side 68 - Two levels have been driven on the lode, at 16 and 26 fathoms, respectively, showing a considerable quantity of Ore to have been left in the Mine. The Copper produced at the smelting works from the Ore now being raised amounts to about 12 tons per month, and the rate of cartage to Adelaide is 20s. per ton. A large amount of work has been done at this Mine since its first commencement. The South Australian Company raised about 4,000 tons of Ore, and opened a large extent of ground. Mr. WB Dawes, who...
Side 19 - ... below. The Ores obtained from this Mine have been chiefly red oxides, very rich blue and green carbonates, and malachite. Native Copper has also been found. Many very beautiful specimens of all the varieties named have been procurable from the Burra Burra, and are to be seen ornamenting the mantelpieces or cabinets of an immense number of houses in the colony. To proceed with a brief history of the Mine; it was discovered by a shepherd named Pickitt in 1845, and in order to secure the fee simple...
Side 86 - The drives on the lode extend altogether for a length of about 350 fathoms at the 10 fathom levels, and for 250 fathoms at a depth of 20. Two other lodes, Young's and MacDonnell's — the latter named after our late Governor — have produced Ore of a higher percentage than that from the other parts of these Mines ; it is grey sulphuret, some of which has given, on assay, 66 per cent. of fine Copper, and the average of the lodes is estimated at nearly 60 per cent. Both lodes have been driven on for...
Side 28 - A fine block of this value, and weighing about 2\ tons had been sent to Port Augusta for shipment. The country was very dry, a well having been sunk 20 fathoms in the bed of the creek without cutting water. There are, nevertheless, some fine springs in the immediate neighbourhood. A number of substantial pine huts for the miners have been erected on the Mine, besides a good store of galvanized iron with a cellar beneath, also offices and Captains
Side 86 - Elder's shaft, in which shaft, at the 10-fathom level, a splendid lode of rich black Ore, largely mixed with malleable Copper, has yielded great quantities of Ore ; at one time it was being hauled up at the rate of 20 tons a day.