William Richard Parcell (2) syndicate
Location #385 - Prospecting Drive - Pigroot Gully
Group Number 1

Group Members

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No Last Name First Names Maiden Name Relationship Occupation Born Died School Year
1 Parcell William Richard (2) Syndicate head Miner

Notes

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Note Date Short Description Note Text
3296 1917 Mine location.

Pigroot Gully, lower end (Shepherds Creek). No accurate location has been determined but it may have been approx 200m west of the mouth of the gully, on the northern side. A survey plan of location #248 produced by Mr G A Balikie (surveyor) of Gore, shows (in pencil as an addition) the location of locations #385 and #509, with a note.

3297 1917 General note.

It appears from the note on the above-mentioned survey plan that location #385 was worked on in 1917. The survey plan note calls it a prospecting drive. Charlie Scott (a local miner) recalls that it was a decline, driven southwest about 39m in length. It appears that the drive encountered a layer of quartz silica sand which when driven into, or near, flows like water through cracks in rocks and is very difficult to contain. The note on the survey plan mentioned that location #385 is stopped with sand. The drive appears to have been abandoned.


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