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"The travels of a Cornish Coppa" (1825) Empire part 12
Morning all,Yesterday i headed back to the Empire mine and town site.The total site area is about 500 acreas and this is my 12th trip here.Worked the area around miners huts and a small foundry.A couple of trips ago i found a couple of foundry crucibles and a few bits of bass and copper junk.spent all saturday working the area but only got one keeper.Gee another english coppa but has a good age.1825
History The Empire was a Cornish area and a population of 7000 scattered against the small mining towns of the area.The Cornish first came to Australia in 1820's settled in the free colony of South Australia and worked the copper mines in the Adelaide hills.The largest mine there was the Cann-man Two.Once the mine closed in the 1830's the cornish move west to the new colony of Port Philip and lived and worked the copper mines in Sunbury until the gold rush of 1851.The gold rush turned to deep quartz mines by 1861 and gold was mined for nearly a hundred years. Most large mines had foundries and powered by industrialised coal and charcoal steam-engines.The Emipe mine employed about 200 mine and power by 4 Derwent Engines and had 16 Quartz stamper batteries and produced about 140,000 oz's of gold in 60 years and the main shaft was 2300 feet deep. A shallow one lol. With 430 square miles of mines and scatterd towns and camps, there always sortages of resourses and often many types of minerals and metal was recycled at the local foundries.Copper was the one in most demand so anything made of it that was dis used e,g coins,tokens, machinery parts where quickly melted down with the copper found in small amounts in quartz saddle reef, to make a needed part or geer.
I think this coin was part of the load of foundry scrap, lost long age.
Tinpan
Morning all,Yesterday i headed back to the Empire mine and town site.The total site area is about 500 acreas and this is my 12th trip here.Worked the area around miners huts and a small foundry.A couple of trips ago i found a couple of foundry crucibles and a few bits of bass and copper junk.spent all saturday working the area but only got one keeper.Gee another english coppa but has a good age.1825
History The Empire was a Cornish area and a population of 7000 scattered against the small mining towns of the area.The Cornish first came to Australia in 1820's settled in the free colony of South Australia and worked the copper mines in the Adelaide hills.The largest mine there was the Cann-man Two.Once the mine closed in the 1830's the cornish move west to the new colony of Port Philip and lived and worked the copper mines in Sunbury until the gold rush of 1851.The gold rush turned to deep quartz mines by 1861 and gold was mined for nearly a hundred years. Most large mines had foundries and powered by industrialised coal and charcoal steam-engines.The Emipe mine employed about 200 mine and power by 4 Derwent Engines and had 16 Quartz stamper batteries and produced about 140,000 oz's of gold in 60 years and the main shaft was 2300 feet deep. A shallow one lol. With 430 square miles of mines and scatterd towns and camps, there always sortages of resourses and often many types of minerals and metal was recycled at the local foundries.Copper was the one in most demand so anything made of it that was dis used e,g coins,tokens, machinery parts where quickly melted down with the copper found in small amounts in quartz saddle reef, to make a needed part or geer.
I think this coin was part of the load of foundry scrap, lost long age.
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cool finds there must be more stuff there are ya going back to that spot? 
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