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Dec 1861: Prince Llewellyn Co, crushing machine ... Sportsman's Reef, crushing machine being
erected. 209
Dec 1861: Hoggett's Reef, the Morning Star Co. busy fitting up a new steam engine intended to drive a
battery of 12-heads. 210
Dec 1861: Oliver Cromwell's Reef, intended to erect a battery powered by water wheel. 211
Dec 1861: Tunnelling - this branch of mining is mostly prosecuted by Italians, from whom it is very
difficult to obtain any information. 212
Dec 1861: Township Lead is still paying handsomely ... Emerald Co. and Wombat Hill G. M. Co. 213
1860-1864: The Cornish Q.M. Co. was an amalgamation of 16 Cornish miners' grounds worked as a Co-op
syndicate who bought out various other small claim owners who had worked the ground
between 1854 and 1860. This syndicate had sunk only with whims and whips, using
independently owned crushing machines between 1860-1863. 214
1860-1864: Cornish Company paid in dividends, from 1860 to 1864, an amount of £24,000 ... The
company's lease is traversed by the Crown Reef, Black Reef, Collier's Reef and Roman Eagle
Reef 215
1860s: First known as Wombat Hill Reefs: Eureka or Eastern Reef, top of the hill, Stanley Street
region. Crown Reef, next west, running roughly along Queensberry Street; Cornish Reef,
slightly below Queensberry Street, and crossing Orford Street; Bonard's shaft, Orford Street,
mullock dump and site of Thomas's Lookout in the 1940s, close to the corner of Orford's and
Grant's Streets; Cornish shaft, south of Bonard's, but not as far as Houston Street; Colliers
shaft (renamed Mitchell’s), south of Bonard's, on the line of Orford Street, junction of Orford
and Houston streets, the shaft was right in the junction and was on the earliest reef opened up
by Parsons and Cocksley in 1854 (Colliers Reef); Sandstone Reef, between the Cornish and
Colliers reefs. 216
early 1860s: Mines associated with the Corinella were - Grand National, originally known as Blanket Flat
Co. (1862); Great Extended Co. and the United Military Co. (top of the range). Both 1865.
Brandy Hot was north of the deep lead mines and was a 'jewellers shop'. Keep it Dark alluvial
and reef is - north of Brandy Hot ... first opened by James Walker in the late 1850s. Walker
got some fantastic crushings from the shallow depths on the reef 16 tons/235 oz. and 12
tons/321 oz in 1872. Walker also managed the Keep it Dark Co. ... other mines were South
Keep it Dark, Last Chane and Salmon's claim. East of the Keep It Dark area and east of the
road to the Don't Wake Em Gully was prospected by Richardson and party about 1860 ... it
was already a well worked alluvial gully all the way down into Bald Hill Creek. One of the
reefs found was the General Gordon and a little south were the Dannevirke and Adelaide Reef
companies. 217
1860s: Cornish Company's battery on top of spur that runs out to the Argus area. 218
early 1860s: One of the mines between Coomoora and Glenlyon was the Bank of England in the Kangaroo
Creek area ... there was intensive alluvial mining in this part of Kangaroo Creek.
early 1860s: North-eastern slopes of Italian Hill, leading down into Jubilee Lake are several very early
tunnels ... Wilson drove three tunnels high up in the north-eastern slope. Paganetti's Italian
Hill tunnel was the longest from the Lake area and goes in close on a mile, to near the British
Champion shaft. Cacerote's Federal tunnel - western face of hill, beside the later Ballarat rail
209 Mining Surveyors' Reports
210 Mining Surveyors' Reports
211 Mining Surveyors' Reports
212 Mining Surveyors' Reports
213 Mining Surveyors' Reports
214 Maddicks, H. T, 1951, p.26
215 Mining Surveyors Reports, June 1889
216 Maddicks, H. T, 1951, p.24
217 Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p.20-23
218 Maddicks, H. T, 1951, p.24