Hamburg Mine

History

This Mine was later known as the Belgian Mine.

Site

Yandoit across from the Glamorgan Mine (now "Park Avenue")

See also

Gold mines

Gold mining companies

Hamburg Hotel

Notes

MINING AT YANDOIT.

We visited the Hamburg mine during last week, and were shown over the property by the mine manager, Mr. Joseph Richards. The mine is about a quarter of a mile south west from the township, on top of a small hill or range, and opposite west to the well known Steel's Reef. The lease comprises 20 acres with a length of 21 chains on the line of reef. In the early days a very large amount of work was done down to 110ft, water level. The reef was worked for 330ft in length to that depth. The formation is a saddle one. On the west leg most of the staping was done and the stone on it gradually tapered out going south, in a similar manner, as it does in other formations of the kind. At the surface outcrop, there is a lava one foot in thickness, going out West on the back of the stone. The east lava is small, but it had a westerly underlay down to 50ft, when it turned back east. The west lava has also turned back east, through the shaft,. and will possibly change again to its west underlay, when it is expected another saddle will form. It is beyond a doubt; proved that the formations overlap each other. In the adjoining mine south, the old Glomogan Shire Reef, the saddle formation was similar, but no attempt was made to search for the second formation below water level. The stone taken out of the Hamburg mine was rich in gold. From 6oz to 3oz to the ton was about the average of the whole taken out. The capital of the present company is £4500, in 30,060 shares of 3s each (no paid up shares). Over 16,000 shares are held locally; which speaks well of the opinion of residents in the locality of the property The company have no intention of opening out at shallow levels, but will sink the engine shaft as deep as possible before driving for the reef. The future of the mine depends wholly on attaining a depth to reach new formations. The shaft at present is the deepest ever sunk in the district - 22- ft. The sinking is in easy mineralised slate and sandstone, which is a favorable indication that a reef exists near at hand: At the rate the sink is going down, a fortnight; it will not take long to reach 200ft below previous workings, and the cost will be very small, as fuel is cheap (8s 6d per ton). The plant on the mine consists of a 23ft x 5 ft-Cornish boiler, 12in winding engine, 2ft stroke, 2 four feet loose winding drum, with double brakes, two 500ft 2in steel Wire ropes, a large feed pump for boiler, brick chimney stack. 40it and poppet legs, the same height, capable of resisting any strain to a depth of 1000ft: I must say that this is the best prospecting plant we have seen put up in the State: Everything: is so substantial and of the best material. The directors have done well for the shareholders by placing such a compact plant on the mine. The mine, it must be remembered, is a purely prospecting one. But it has great features in is favor, being situated, as it is, on a rich line of reef. The numerous rich alluvial gullies must have been fed by the gold eroded from the reef, which is the source of them all. We believe the Hamburg will be a good mine and deserves the assistance of investors and worthy of their attention. If successful, as I believe it will be, it will open up one of the greatest reefing districts yet untouched in the State. In the hands of J. Prince Cameron, as legal manager. and Joseph Richards, as mine manager, I expect to hear before this year is out that another Byron Reef has been struck at Yandoit. I feel confident that the best will be done for the shareholders by those officers.

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--Beth Kicinski 14:33, 15 November 2016 (AEDT)