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GeneralKyogle - Tindalls - Tyndalls Quarry, Australia.

20th Oct 2022 16:00 UTCKrzysztof Andrzejewski

Hello - I have question to Aussie collectors about locality called

- Kyogle Quarry, NSW (so is giving Mindat)

but also

- Tindalls Quarry, Kyogle NSW (Greg Dainty)

- Tyndalls Quarry, Kyogle, Rous Co., NSW (Rob Lavinsky).

Is this the same quarry??

20th Oct 2022 21:09 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager

Maybe all wrong?

I have a specimen from Kyogle but haven’t collected there. From what I can see, there are three quarries around Kyogle: Durham’s lookout, Chadburns and Kyogle quarries. On the satellite maps Chadburns looks disused, Kyogle looks rehabbed or totally misplaced, and Durham’s lookout may be working but misplaced 250m to the NNE? I moved Chadburns and Kyogle quarries from under Fairy Mount to Kyogle as it didn’t seem relevant (they are not on that mountain). Chadburns is the largest and has aliases: Tindale quarry; Tindale's quarry; Tyndale quarry. Maybe Kyogle quarry = Chadburns which was previously called Tindale? There is a business at Kyogle registered as Graham’s concrete and quarrying but unsure what quarry they use. I don’t know which is the most appropriate name; Greg is relatively local so we should ask him, or Keith may know also.

26th Apr 2023 02:00 UTCTony Forsyth

Ralph, Durham's Lookout was not a quarry, but a roadcut rerouting the Kyogle/Lismore Road approx 11kms South East of Kyogle. Tindall's/Chadburn's was the largest and main quarry in the shire for almost 20 years in the area and was often just referred to as "Kyogle Quarry" even though 9kms away.

21st Oct 2022 05:35 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager

I’ll address this when I get back home.

Away at the moment, and in fact have just been to Kyogle!!

24th Oct 2022 08:37 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager

Fairy Mount is a small hill / mountain and also a parish.

I will address the issues and add some photos.

Tindalls is in fact Chadburns and was operated by the Kyogle Shire Council. So yes, the same quarry.

The quarry is / was located in, and on, Fairy Mount which covers an area of around 500 hectares.

The quarry is/was located on a ridge spur to the east of the Mckellar Ranges.

The quarry is now fully rehabilitated and restored to farmland.

24th Oct 2022 20:32 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager

Thanks Keith, although I still doubt the quarry is on Fairy Mount, it’s actually on a spur of Red Mount, with a major valley between it and Fairy Mount? But if its in the Fairy Mt parish that’s fine.

26th Apr 2023 02:12 UTCTony Forsyth

I cannot find references to the place "Fairy Mount", but there is a locality "Fairy Hill" just to the south of Kyogle, and "Fairy Mount Creek" which runs through Kyogle Cemetery. These are over 9kms south west of Tindall's/Chadburn's Quarries, so I don't believe they can be at the locality named as Fairy Mount. I did find in the Kyogle Shire collections, as well as Lloyd Sinclair collections a number of specimens labelled Fairy Mount, but they did appear to be quite different than Tindall's/Chadburns. Many specimens are just collected during road works other than actual quarries and may have provided specimens.

26th Apr 2023 02:44 UTCKevin Conroy Manager

TONY FORSYTH OAM ✉️

Fairy Mount

I followed Fairy Mount Creek upstream, and it seems to originate near Fairy Mountain:

https://www.geonames.org/8165618/fairy-mountain.html

It seems possible that "Fairy Mount" is just an alternate name.

26th Apr 2023 02:54 UTCKevin Conroy Manager

Update! I think that I followed the wrong branch of the stream. There is a geonames record for Fairy Mount:

https://www.geonames.org/2166904/fairy-mount.html

26th Apr 2023 01:55 UTCTony Forsyth

I have been doing a project for the Kyogle Shire Council in 2022, placing a display of local minerals into three shire venues. Many of the local mineral specimens have come from council quarries that the council has operated for well over 100 years. Probably the most prolific specimen quarry was Tindall's Quarry. The name has been mispelled in many places, but I believe this to be the correct spelling. The name was derived from the family whose property it was on. Previous to Tindall's it was called Chadburn's Quarry to further muddy the labelling. The quarry, (not surprisingly), is located on Quarry Road, Cawongla - a locality approx 9kms east of Kyogle on the Murwillumbah Road. I collected extensively in the 1990s/early 2000s. The quarry expanded to the lease boundaries and was closed down and rehabilitated by pushing dirt up to the top of the walls. No collecting is now possible.

26th Apr 2023 05:09 UTCKeith Compton 🌟 Manager

Cawongla is actually a little further along the Kyogle road.

Chadburn's is certainly all backfilled but some remnant basaltic rock outcrops (quarry walls remain visible.

The last official name of the quarry is Chadburn's Quarry and was operated as a source of road gravel from around 1952.

It is officially located in the Parish of Fairy Mount in Rous County.

Mindat does not use parishes (there are over 7,000 in New South Wales.

Quarry Road is now a private road to a homestead.

It should also be noted that there is a Fairy Mount Creek on the south edge of Kyogle.

30th Apr 2023 21:33 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager

Thanks Tony, Keith and Kevin for your help with this. I have been out bush for a week, but will see if I can update things a bit. I am still unsure whether “Fairy Mount” is useful in the name hierarchy, whether as a parish or mountain?

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