tinpan
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In 1857 in Long Gully the first public mining company was formed. Named at first the Bendigo Quartz Mining Company and when changed to Windmill HIll Coy Gold Mining Company.Due to the cost of digging hard rock deep mines to get the reef gold many of the more successful gold claim miners joined forces to raise the large amounts of money required to start a deep mine.Machinery and plant was often shipped from other countries USA, Germany and From Cornish coal mines in the UK.This was a great cost.Most of the first hard mines produced vast wealth for those tho owned them but the poor miners who worked in them were paid little.
Yesterday i went to a disused mine site of the Windmill HIll Coy shaft which was later called the Stanford Shaft.The Company owned about a dozen gold mines on this hill and nearly 1 million ozs of gold was mined .The resent fires here have cleared huge areas and reveiled a few disguard pits and remains of buildings like mine office, pump sheds and engine rooms.
Between the west side of Dangerous HIll across St Just Point in the gully below there was about 500 mines worked.Some say this area is one of the largest amounts of deep gold mine in small area in world.
Spent most of the day digging around the old building and a couple of shallow waste pits and came home with quite a few keepers. i feel these are the best finds of rather grand weekend.
i found about the largest silver coin i ever found a double crown i think and in great condition but real black tho.A local glass beer bot5tle circa 1890's and a pot lid.Due to the size of pic it will take a bit of time to download them all. old photo of mine from the 1930's
tinpan
Yesterday i went to a disused mine site of the Windmill HIll Coy shaft which was later called the Stanford Shaft.The Company owned about a dozen gold mines on this hill and nearly 1 million ozs of gold was mined .The resent fires here have cleared huge areas and reveiled a few disguard pits and remains of buildings like mine office, pump sheds and engine rooms.
Between the west side of Dangerous HIll across St Just Point in the gully below there was about 500 mines worked.Some say this area is one of the largest amounts of deep gold mine in small area in world.
Spent most of the day digging around the old building and a couple of shallow waste pits and came home with quite a few keepers. i feel these are the best finds of rather grand weekend.
i found about the largest silver coin i ever found a double crown i think and in great condition but real black tho.A local glass beer bot5tle circa 1890's and a pot lid.Due to the size of pic it will take a bit of time to download them all. old photo of mine from the 1930's
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