Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	37° 36' 3'' South , 143° 50' 12'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-37.60094,143.83679
GeoHash:	G#: r1q614fy8
Locality type:	Mine (Built Over) - last checked 2018
Köppen climate type:	Cfb : Temperate oceanic climate

Historic gold mine.

The shaft is located at Peter Court, under neighbouring housing.

The Nelson and Wellington Gold Mining Company began sinking a shaft in June 1856, with the first gold produced five years later in September 1861. The lease was bordered by the Red jacket, Defiance, and United Working Miners claims, and there was much litigation between the companies as to who owned what ground. The company was following the Wellington gutter looking for alluvial gold northwards from its junction with Frenchmans Lead.

In 1867 employees were discharged, and operation suspended from a lack of capital. Shareholders had failed to respond to a call made and banks were refusing to loan the company more money. Some development work continued until 1868 when shareholders complained of heavy expenditure; the chairman was missing; and there were threats to wind up the company. It is thought mining stopped shortly thereafter. The Prince of Wales Company complained in 1872, the old Nelson shaft was full of water, which was discharging into their workings.

The Nelson and Wellington Gold Mining Company also had a shaft approximately 100 metres West and slightly North of Owen Court.

Regional Geology

This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.

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Holocene - Miocene 0 - 23.03 Ma ID: 704630

Newer Volcanic Group Age: Cenozoic (0 - 23.03 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Newer Volcanic Group Description: Cinder cones - scoria, minor ash and agglutinates; Lava flows - tholeiitic to minor alkaline and basanitic lavas. Comments: igneous mafic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous mafic volcanic Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5]

Early Silurian - Cambrian 427.4 - 541 Ma ID: 3185333

Paleozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Paleozoic (427.4 - 541 Ma) Comments: Lachlan Fold Belt Lithology: Sedimentary rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154]

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