mining lease application · 1859

Mining lease applications in This reef has been abandoned for nine months, the quality of quartz not being sufficiently rich to remunerate private miners. It is anticipated that by good machinery and proper appliances a company can pay themselves where the private miners would fail. Proposed term of lease ten years (1 entries).

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ApplicantJohn. Beattie, Chas. Meggs, William H. Moody

Extent800 yards by 240 yards

Land DescriptionQuartz Reef — Three — thousand pounds

Investment AmountTwenty horse power engine, stampers and gear

Machinery DescriptionSailor's Reef, one mile or thereabouts south of township of Steiglitz. To commence operations as soon as lease is granted

LocationThis reef has been abandoned for nine months, the quality of quartz not being sufficiently rich to remunerate private miners. It is anticipated that by good machinery and proper appliances a company can pay themselves where the private miners would fail. Proposed term of lease ten years.

Victoria Government Gazette, No. 69, 1859.

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Near this placeThis reef has been abandoned for nine months, the quality of quartz not being sufficiently rich to remunerate private miners. It is anticipated that by good machinery and proper appliances a company can pay themselves where the private miners would fail. Proposed term of lease ten years.

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