Description
Rare large two sheet geological map of the ‘New Chum’ mine, Bendigo. Each sheet measures 800m x 500mm
History of The New Chum Reef
1864 Opened. Its prospectors drove a tunnel which, by September
1865 Prospectors drove a tunnel was in 300 ft.
1867 New Chum Co. undertook ‘necessary works’—a track or tramway—to enable crushing at the Dry Creek battery.
1868 17-head battery, engine and boilererected ‘for the purpose of crushing the stone from the New Chum Reef’
1870 Harbinger Co. laid a tramway to the battery.
1871 New Chum and other reefs were abandoned.
1876 Mine and plant of the Harbinger Co. was sold and the new owner immediately got the steam-engine and battery in thorough working order.
1884-5 Battery and engine were repaired, additional gold-saving appliances installed, and (new) quartz-roasting kilns constructed.
1886 Active mining recommenced in the Harbinger, resulting in a few good yields before the gold cut out.
1888 A 10-head battery and other plant was erected on another site for the Harbinger mine
1915 The New Chum ceased operations
