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June 1891: Two claims (namely, the United Freehold and the Cornish & York companies) have suspended
operations, and this has been the means of making mining matters generally very quiet. 655
June 1891: Yandoit Grand Junction Co. treated 3,550 tons of wash for 234-oz. gold. 656
June 1891: Daylesford Pyrites Works ... now prepared to treat pyrites raised outside the division. 657
Sept 1891: North Cornish Co., dividend £3,600. 658
Sept 1891: Golden Spring Co., a good deal of progressive work. 659
1890s: Deep Lead mining under Table Hill. There are at least 5 tunnels under the basalt topping of
Table Hill ... most of these head in from the south-west edge and at least three were worked by
Sutton & Sons ... The new Midland Highway cuts across the mouth of the last Sutton tunnel ...
Bert Sutton worked this until late 1940s. Two of the Sutton Bros in the early 1890s discovered
Sutton Mineral Springs when sluicing in the area. Fight Em Gully - eastern edge of Table Hill,
sluiced out in the 1850s right down to Wombat Creek near the present Springs. The north end
of the hill also worked ... lead lost near the present highway at Christensen's Ajax shaft. Stony
Creek - runs into Wombat Creek, midway between Sutton Springs and Sailors Creek. It is a
steep sided creek, now sluiced out above Stony Creek Falls. Stony Creek Basin ... in the 1860s
the Grand Mystery Co. sunk a shaft. Corinella Dyke also starts near the Stony Creek Basin
and continues westwards to Deep Creek. West of the trotting track was the Ajax Consolidated
mine of the 1860s. Sunk 120ft to work lead between Sailors Creek and Stony Creek (believed
to be branch of Llewlyn Lead) ... The Llewlyn Lead was lost northwards ... though very many
tunnels have been driven into the west bank of Stony Creek searching for it. Also a few short
leads have been worked from the Sailors Creek side. At the north end of the ridge early
alluvials were worked down the north slopes on what were known as the Albion Spurs.
Albion Spurs - William Tell mine beside the old Ballarat Road (early 1860s) ... re-opened in
1910 with machinery ... shaft sunk 360 feet ... 6700 tons/3050 oz. for £3,000 dividends. 660
1900s+: North Nuggetty - total tons crushed 61,000/38,700 oz. ... mine closed in early 1920s, shaft
900ft. deep. 661
1900s: Blanket Flat (Eganstown) - Corinella G. M. Co., Egan's homestead paddocks ... first company
formed in December 1861 at this point the company was re-organised [?].... company worked
until 1912 ... it employed about 120 underground miners and worked 3 shafts plus a tunnel
from Deep Creek, Golden Point side.. 662
1900s: Sailors Creek dredge worked around Shepherds Flat as far as the Breakneck ... dredge
foundered just south of Excelsior Bridge. The trout fishermen still use part of its timbers as a
platform. 663
1900s+: North Nuggetty Ajax, started later than the Nuggetty Ajax ... the shaft is one the south edge of
the present rubbish tip ... mine closed about 1926 ... up until 1917 it produced 48,000 oz., paid
dividends of £57,000 using a 15-head battery ... their sand dump occupies a lot of ground in
the bush to the west ... the mine was the first to generate its own electricity. 664 ... North
Nuggetty, 900ft - Dumps immediately west of the rubbish tip 665
655 Mining Surveyors Reports
656 Mining Surveyors Reports
657 Mining Surveyors Reports
658 Mining Surveyors Reports
659 Mining Surveyors Reports
660 Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p.51
661 Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p.32-33
662 Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p.20-23
663 Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p.42-43
664 Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p.32-33
665 Maddicks, Henry T., 100 Years of Daylesford Gold Mining History, p.34-36