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    Hawkins Hill, Hill End. Assessment of Mining Relics.

    Hawkins Hill, Hill End. Assessment of Mining Relics.
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    HAWKINS HILL ~ HILL END

    ASSESSMENT OF MINING RELICS



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    HAWKINS HILL - HILL END

    ASSESSMENT OF MINING RELICS

    Prepared for[...]
    [...]ntory Sheets for Identified Features.

    C. Hawkins Hill Mining Leases — Original Claims
    (J E Har[...]
    INTRODUCTION
    1.1 Preamble

    Hill End is a place of outstanding heritage
    significance. The Hill End township and the
    surrounding landscape feature ev[...]first phase of reef mining in
    Australia.

    Hawkins Hill, extending from the southern end of
    the township towards the Turon River some 300m[...]uded more than 100

    I claims. It was from Hawkins Hill that the world's
    largest gold bearing specimen, t[...]nn "nugget", was extracted in 1872. Today
    Hawkins Hill is littered with evidence of more than

    n a centu[...]oration Licence
    (EL2037) over the greater area of Hill End and is
    3 involved in exploration and mining in the Hawkins
    Hill area. In September 1988 the Minister for
    Local Go[...]ted 7th March
    1986), which covered the village of Hill End, by
    making a new Interim Conservation~0rder (No 8[...]ort on mining heritage
    in the vicinity of Hawkins Hill, Hill End. The
    report originally requested was requi[...]
    [...]erim Conservation
    Order extension area at Hawkins Hill.

    This work would have included:

    * liaison with[...]merous
    documentations available on the history of
    Hill End and of mining and treatment
    activity);

    * field i[...]Research and Fieldwork

    Available publications on Hill End, and
    particularly those with references to Hawkins Hill,
    were consulted. An examination was made of recor[...]and Wildlife Service Draft Plan
    of Management for-Hill End was consulted. The
    major documentary sourc[...]
    1.5

    1.6

    1.7

    L F Harper Hill End - Tambarggra goldfiel , Mineral

    Resources, 27, N[...]gures
    3 and 4 of a previous report on the Hawkins Hill
    area, encompassing the ,areas of current a[...]
    [...]NE}



    Alluvial gold was first discovered in the Hill End
    area at Tambaroora, some 5km north of the present
    village of Hill End. Panning and cradling to
    concentrate the gold com[...]cted at
    Renatauls battery located halfway between Hill End
    and Tambaroora. By 1870 a number of reefing claims
    were being worked on Hawkins Hill and Mr Pullen
    erected a 5 head stamping battery at Hill End.
    This he soon replaced with a 15 head battery which
    operated a few hundred metres from the present Hill
    End Post Office.



    I Mining activities increased dr[...]atteries which
    averaged 10 heads each.

    i Hawkins Hill was the most successful area for the
    miners as a[...]ere worked.
    More individual fortunes were made at Hill End than
    at any other mining site in NSW.



    : From_[...]as taken to other sites and the first
    and biggest Hill End rush was over."

    I Mining continued sporadically[...]ty in the 1920s and the 1940s.

    The boom years at Hill End were from 1870 to 1874
    during which time t[...]
    [...]g the
    western slope of the ridge known as Hawkins Hill.
    Shafts which were below the original main[...]
    [...]attery sites in
    the immediate vicinity of Hawkins Hill and there
    were probably three in the area being s[...]Peace battery.

    Headframes and Pithead Works

    The Hill End gold rush was characterised by small
    scale, predo[...]ry units.

    The only headframes which exist on the hill are the
    Patriarch and Cornish shafts. Both[...]
    [...]oads

    There are two established tracks on Hawkins Hill.
    One, The Bridle Track, runs down the ridge while[...]around the
    western and southern slopes of Hawkins Hill and is
    still in use. The dam wall has been[...]
    [...]3

    4.4

    There are several such collections at the Hill End
    site which have increased the significance of
    cer[...]sociated.

    Summary

    The relics and shaft sites at Hill End all have
    significance in their own right,[...]
    [...]exploration drilling
    programme within the Hawkins Hill area. This work
    involved the establishment of twe[...]mpany
    proposes to drive horizontally into Hawkins Hill
    via a new edit to be established within the Fisch[...],
    is on level ground along the top of the Hawkins
    Hill ridge within the area of the original Kohi[...]
    [...]on sloping ground on the western side of
    Hawkins Hill, close to an unnamed tributary to
    Nuggety Gully C[...]te is
    within a track which leads from the Hawkins Hill
    ridge top towards the Patriarch shaft and[...]
    [...]e Photo 3),
    is on the western side of the Hawkins hill ridge
    top, above an unnamed tributary to N[...]
    [...]e Photo 4),
    is on the western side of the Hawkins Hill ridge
    top, in a flat cleared area between[...]
    [...](see Photo 5),
    is on the western side of Hawkins Hill, within the
    area of the original Crown Pri[...]
    [...]on the heritage value of this section of
    Hawkins Hill. The steep and unstable nature of the
    talus slope[...]regard is the appearance of this side of Hawkins
    Hill from the Beaufoy Merlin Lookout. This is a
    highly significant view of Hawkins Hill and the
    vast expanse of mullock and talus slopes on the
    western side of the hill is an important element of

    the visual qua[...]
    [...]w
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    Photo 8: Hawkins Hill, viewed from Beaufoy Merlin
    Lookout.





    Photo 9: Close up View of Nuggetty’ Gully and

    Hawkins Hill showing site of proposed
    aditi(arrow).



    21
    [...]es of
    the Silver Orchid mining company at Hawkins Hill,
    Hill End, have had some impact on the historic
    mining site[...]ed Fischer Adit, which will be driven
    beneath the hill at a point 50m NE of Fischers
    Shaft and 85[...]
    [...]%







    7.0

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Harper, L F. 1918. Hill End 7 Tambaroora
    Goldfield. Mineral Resources, 27.
    NS[...]t of Mines, Sydney.

    Hilyard, D and Roberts, C W. Hill End Gold
    Deposits Map. Department of Mineral
    Resource[...]W
    Geological Survey, Sydney.

    Hodge, H. 1974. The Hill End Story. (2nd edn) 3
    volumes. Hill End Publications,
    Sydney.

    Mullins, B, Martin, M and Baglin, D. l976.

    Historic Hill End. 36pp. A H and A
    W Reed, Sydney.

    New South Wales[...]National Parks and Wildlife Service of NSW. 1988.
    Hill End Historic Site- Draft Plan

    of Management,[...]
    [...]FLYIM} FOXHEADFRAME ITEMHAHE



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    ITEM IDE[...]
    [...]MONTE (I-IRISTO SHAFT ITEM NAME



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    ITEM[...]
    [...]RAWS 'lHORN SHAFT









    ITEMNAME

    DH} RGM

    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL
    II NORIHUMBERLAND SHAFT







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    RAMPAN‘I‘ LION SHAFT ITEM NAME









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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    ll STAR OF PEACE HEAD P03T ITEM NAME
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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    [...]TAR OF PEACE MULLOCK HEAP ITEM NAME








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    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]ck heaps running down the western side of Hawkins Hill into Nuggety
    Gully.

    SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSME[...]
    [...]SHAFI.‘ AND MULLOCK HEAPS ITEM NAME








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    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]blackberry, sunk into the western side of Hawkins Hill above
    Nuggety Gully. The shaft was sunk to[...]
    [...]ME





    MAEHIESON'S SHAFT AND MULLOCK HEAP
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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    STAR OF PEACE SHAFT



    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY



    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET[...]orked in about 1870. The main vein of the Hawkins Hill strike was named after the company.
    Severa[...]
    ‘7..wa -;



    STAR OF PEACE BOILER ITEM NAME



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    ITE[...]
    [...]w












    FLYING FOX WINCH ITEH NAME

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    ITEM[...]
    FLYING FOX MAIN CABLE ANCHOR ITEM NAME





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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    SHAFT AND MULLOCK HEAPS ITEM NAME







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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    GOLDEN MILE SHAFT AND MULLOCK HEAP

    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL

    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET

    ITEM NO: 15

    LOCATION[...]ine shaft located beside anchor point for Hawkins Hill Flying Fox cable for flying fox
    Crescent S[...]
    [...]..

    IIIM







    RETAINING WALL ITEM “ABE



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    ITEM IDEN[...]ng wall running along the eastern side of Hawkins Hill above the Monte
    Christo edit/bridle track[...]
    [...].."





    SHAFT AND MULLOCK HEAP ITEM NAME




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    ITEM[...]
    MINING SGARRED AREA










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    ITEM IDENTIFICA[...]m - probably the most well known claim on Hawkins Hill.

    SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT (5)/5

    Historic[...]
    MINING SHAFTS (2) ITEM NAME



    HILL END — HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder: DMG RGM



    ITEM[...]
    [...]DRYSTONE RETAINING WALL ITEM NAME







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    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]bridle track route, down
    western side of Hawkins Hill to Turon River. Pictured section is to eas[...]
    urn-mom.

    4 SHAFTS AND MULLOCK HEAPS

    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL



    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET

    ITEM NO: 21[...]
    MINE SHAFTS



    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY



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    MINE SHAFTS ITEM NAME



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    ITEM[...]
    [...]am







    PAXTON'S SHAFT TTEH NAME








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    ITEM[...]
    ‘3









    MINE SHAFT ITEM NAME







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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    MINE SHAFT ITEM NAME








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    ITEM IDE[...]
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    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]of Australia Shaft. It is located at the eastern end
    of the original Rose of Australia claim, near the ridge of Hawkins Hill.

    SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT (3)/5

    Historic[...]
    [...]3
    3



    MEYERS SHAFT ITEM NAME







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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    HERMAN SHAFT (1) ITEM NAME







    HILL END — HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder; DMG RCM
    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]road which runs down the.western Side of Hawkins Hill. This shaft was used to work the Star
    of P[...]
    Dip-a

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    ITEM[...]e (1962)
    roadway down the western side of Hawkins Hill. It is overgrown with blackberry, but may[...]
    OXEN (OXON) SHAFT ITEM NAME





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    ITEM IDENTIF[...]road which runs down the western side
    of Hawkins Hill. A stone retaining wall for an earlier roa[...]
    [...]LINES OF MULLOCK ITEM NAHE








    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder: DMG REM
    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]and up the contour of the western side of Hawkins Hill, is a linear
    depression, apparently formed[...]
    MINING SCARRED AREA ITEM NAME




    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder: DMG RGM







    ITEM N[...]a
    number of early claims across the main Hawkins Hill strike.



    SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT (10/5[...]
    MONITOR SHAFT



    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY



    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET[...]located in a flat area along the ride of Hawkins Hill. The condition of the shaft is
    unclear as[...]
    SHAFT (CROWN PRINCE CLAIM) ITEM NAME



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    TWO SHAFTS

    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY

    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET[...]
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    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]ESCRIPTION:

    A small collapsed shaft cut into the hill above and adjacent to an early raad along the western side
    of Hawkins Hill. It is overgrown with blackberries.

    SIGNI[...]
    SHAFT





    HILL END -- HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY





    I ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET[...]SCRIPTION:
    5 A small collapsed shaft cut into the hill above and adjacent to an early road along the westzern side
    of Hawkins Hill. The shaft is overgrown with blackberries.[...]
    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY



    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHE[...]
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    CROWN PRINCE SHAFT ITEM NAME




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    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder; DEG RGM




    ITE[...]
    STONE BUILDING REMAINS ' ITEM NAME









    HILL END — HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE‘STUDY Recorder: DEG REM
    ITEM ID[...]
    DIGGINGS/MJLLOCK HEAP ITEM NAME










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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    I
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    EARLY ROAD FORMATION

    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL

    HERITAGE STUDY

    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET[...]
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    ITE[...]
    CORNISH BOILER

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    Recorder:

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    HAWKINS HILL



    HILL END



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    ITEM[...]boiler, complete except for the doors.
    gussetted end plates and has three GallOWay tubes inters[...]
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    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET



    ITEM NO:[...]
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    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHE[...]
    SHAFT/DIGGING ITEM NAME







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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    SHAFT/DIGGING ITEM NAME




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    SHAFT ITEM RAKE







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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    [...]\





    TRUST AND TRY SHAFT ITEM NAME







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    ITEM ID[...]
    [...]SHAFT AND MULLOCK HEAPS ITEM KAI-fl?-







    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder: DMG REM
    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]mpany, dates back to the first
    working of Hawkins Hill in the 18705. Four reef were worked; Frenchmans,[...]ed in 1902, but was
    later operated by the Hawkins Hill Central Gold-mining Company. Equipment fro[...]
    STONE WALL

    DMG RGM



    Recorder:

    HERITAGE STUDY

    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL

    . 27/4/89

    Date

    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEE[...]
    [...]ER.BAETERY PLATFORM ITEM NAME












    HILL END — HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder: DMG RGM
    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]Battery depicted in Harper's 1871 View of Hawkins Hill.

    SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT (4)/5

    Historic[...]
    [...]STONE RETAINING WALL/WEIR ITEM NAME







    HILL END _ HAWKINS EILL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder: DM[...]
    ROAD ITEM NAME








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    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]he 855 in contour, on the western side of Hawkins Hill, SW of the Cornelian
    Dam, within the Londo[...]
    WATER RACE ITEM NAME



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    I ITEM IDENT[...]uns along the southern side of a ridge in Hawkins Hill, along the
    870m contour, towards the Cornelian Da[...]icant form.of mining
    relic now evident on Hawkins Hill.



    SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT (10/5

    3 Hist[...]
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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    [...]III IIIII





    LEVEL AREA ' ITEM NAME







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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    [...]SE REMAINS ‘ ITEM NAME



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    ITEM IDENTIF[...]191 8(?)

    LOCATION: Eastern side of Prince Albert Hill COMPANY : Havilah Lease
    CONDITION: Ruin

    D[...]
    [...](PROBABLY HAVILAH) ITEM NAME











    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder: DEB RGM
    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]apsed shaft on the eastern slope of Prince Alfred Hill close to
    the retaining wall. The shaft is[...]
    STONE FOOTING ITEM NAME



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    ITEM[...]ey. It is however one of a group on Prince Alfred Hill.

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    ITE[...]ning directly down the east face of Prince Alfred Hill.
    ItS age and purpose are unknown but it do[...]
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    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY



    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHE[...]
    GREAT NORTHERN SHAFT ITEM NAME



    HEL END - HAWKINS REL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder: DMG RGM[...]: 1871

    LOCATION: Fig 1. East slepe Prince Alfred Hill. COMPANY :
    CONDITION: Intact

    DESCRIPTION: Situated on the East slope of Prince Alfred Hill. It was worked between
    1871 and 1873 and h[...]
    [...]IDENTIFIED SHAFT AND RCPD 9 ITEM NAME







    HILL END — HAWKINS HEL HERITAGE STUDY Recorder: D[...]
    HEADFRAME SHEAVE - REMNANT ITEM NAME



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    ITEM IDENTIF[...]ft. The Exhibition
    Shaft later became the Hawkins Hill Reward Company and worked the shaft for ma[...]
    [...]NEVERFAIL SHAFT AND EQUIPMENT V ITEM NAME



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    ITEM IDENTIF[...]best set of traditional mining relics on Hawkins Hill including Shaft and small
    head water tank.[...]
    [...]h" ...



    CORNELIAN DAM. ITEM NAME





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    ITEM IDENTIFICAT[...]d by a small earth race which runs
    around Hawkins Hill itself (Item 60).

    SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT[...]
    [...]CORNELIAN SHAFT, (FORNERLY NIAGARA)







    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY Hemmer: DEG RGM
    ITEM IDENTI[...]
    ALL NATIONS SHAFT (FRENCHMANS SHAFT)

    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL



    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET



    ITEM NO:[...]
    [...]REVIOUSLY CALLED ALL NATIONs) ITEM NAME







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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    WM:-



    SHAFT (POSSIBLY TRUST AND TRY LEASE)

    HILL END — HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY

    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET[...]
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    GREAT WESTERN SHAFT ITEM_EAHE
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    ITEM IDEN[...]
    M.“ 4

    WORKING AREA



    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY

    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET[...]
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    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL

    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET

    ITEM NO : 81[...]
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    1



    APPENDIX C.

    HAWKINS HILL MINING LEASES H ORIGINRL Cgfiimg-

    ( J.E.[...]

    TXT

    [...]HAWKINS HILL - HILL END[...]
    [...]•




    HAWKINS HILL - HILL END
    II ASSESSMENT OF MI[...]
    [...]ied Features.
    Hawkins Hill Mining Leases - Original Claims[...]
    [...]I 1.1 Preamble
    Hill End is a place of outstanding heritage
    I significance. The Hill End township and the
    surroundin[...]Australia.
    I Hawkins Hill, extending from the southern end of
    the township towards the[...]claims. It was from Hawkins Hill that the world's
    I largest go[...]cted in 1872. Today
    Hawkins Hill is littered with evidence of more than
    I[...](EL2037) over the greater area of Hill End and is
    I involved in exploration and mining in the Hawkins
    Hill area. In September 1988 the Minister for[...]1986), which covered the village of Hill End, by
    making a new Interim Co[...]in the vicinity of Hawkins Hill, Hill End. The
    report ori[...]
    [...]Order extension area at Hawkins Hill.
    I This work[...]Hill End and of mining and treatment
    I[...]Available publications on Hill End, and
    particularly those with references to Hawkins Hill,
    were consu[...]of Management for. Hill End was consulted. The
    i[...]
    [...]•




    L F Harper Hill End - Tambaroora Goldfield, Mineral
    I Re[...]3 and 4 of a previous report on the Hawkins Hill
    area, encompassing the[...]
    [...]Alluvial gold was first discovered in the Hill End
    area at Tambaroora, some 5km north of the present
    village of Hill End. Panning and cradling to
    I[...]Renatauls battery located halfway between Hill End
    and Tambaroora. By 1870 a number[...]ims
    I were being worked on Hawkins Hill and Mr Pullen
    erected a 5 head stamping battery at Hill End.
    This he soon replaced with a 15[...]operated a few hundred metres from the present Hill
    End Post Office.
    Mining activities[...]averaged 10 heads each.
    I Hawkins Hill was the most successful area for the[...]More individual fortunes were made at Hill End than
    I at any other mining site in[...]sites and the first
    and biggest Hill End rush was over.·
    I Mining continue[...]nd the 1940s.

    I The boom years at Hill End were from 1870 to 1874
    du[...]
    [...]western slope of the ridge known as Hawkins Hill.
    Shafts which were be[...]
    [...]the immediate vicinity of Hawkins Hill and there
    I were probably thr[...]~·


    The Hill End gold rush was charqcterised by small[...]The only headframes which exist on the hill are the
    I Patriarch an[...]
    [...]There are two established tracks on Hawkins Hill.
    One, The Bridle Track, runs[...]western and southern slopes of Hawkins Hill and is
    still in use.[...]
    [...]There are several such collections at the Hill End
    site which have increas[...]The relics and shaft sites at Hill End all have
    signifi[...]
    [...]programme within the Hawkins Hill area. This work
    involved[...]proposes to drive horizontally into Hawkins Hill
    via a new adit to be establ[...]long the top of the Hawkins
    I Hill ridge within the area of the original Kohi[...]
    [...]g ground on the western side of
    Hawkins Hill, close to an unnamed tributary to
    I Nugge[...]within a track which leads from the Hawkins Hill
    I ridge top towards the Patriarch[...]
    [...]is on the western side of the Hawkins hill ridge
    top, above an u[...]
    [...]is on the western side of the Hawkins Hill ridge
    I top, in a flat cleare[...]
    [...]is on the western side of Hawkins Hill, within the
    area of th[...]
    [...]6),
    is on the western side of Hawkins Hill, within the
    area of the origi[...]
    [...]wn
    the western side of Hawkins Hill. The proposed
    adit a[...]
    [...]the heritage value of this section of
    Hawkins Hill. The steep and unstable nature of the
    talus s[...]ard is the appearance of this side of Hawkins
    Hill from the Beaufoy Merlin Lookout. This is a
    highly significant view of Hawkins Hill and the
    I vast expanse of mullock and talus slopes on the
    western side of the hill is an important element of
    the visua[...]
    I
    I
    I
    I
    I
    I
    I
    I Photo 8: Hawkins Hill,
    Lookout.[...]w of Nuggetty Gully and
    Hawkins Hill showing site of proposed
    i[...]
    [...]the Silver Orchid mining company at Hawkins Hill,
    Hill End, have had some impact on the historic
    I m[...]Adit, which will be driven
    beneath the hill at a point SOm NE of Fischers
    I Sh[...]
    [...]ield.
    Hill End - Tambaroora[...]Hilyard, D and Roberts, C W. Hill End Gold
    Deposits Map.[...](2nd edn) 3
    I Hodge, H. 1974. The Hill End Story.
    volumes.
    Sydney.
    Hill End Publications,


    I Mullins, B, Martin, M and Baglin,
    Historic Hill End.
    D[...]Wildlife Service of NSW.
    Hill End Historic Site:[...]
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    I HlLL END - HAWKINS HTI..L

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    I HJLL END- HAWKINS HTI..I: HERITAGE ST[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKlliS HILL

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    [...]ITEM NAME

    HlLL END - HAWKINS HU.L
    I ITEM: IDENTIFICATION SHEET[...]ck heaps running down the western side of Hawkins Hill into Nuggety
    Gully.
    I
    I SIGNIFICANCE[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME



    I HTI..L END - HAWKINS HJLL

    ITEM IDENTIFICATION SHEET[...]blackberry, sunk into the western side of Hawkins Hill above

    I Nuggety Gully. The shaft was s[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME


    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL

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    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]orked in about 1870. The nmin vein of the Hawkins Hill strike was named after the company.
    Se[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
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    I HTI.L END - HAWKINS HTI.L HERITAGE SWD[...]
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    I
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    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]ine shaft located beside anchor point for Hawkins Hill Flying Fox cable for flying fox
    passe[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HUL END - HAWKINS HUL HERITAGE STUDY[...]ng wall running along the eastern side of Hawkins Hill above the Monte
    Christo adit/bridle tr[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
    [...]•


    I
    I MINING SCARRED AREA

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]m - probably the most well known claim on Hawkins Hill.
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]dle track route, down
    I western side of Hawkins Hill to Turon River. Pictured section is to eas[...]
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    I HTI..L END - HAWKINS HTI..L HERITAGE STUDY[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HUL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
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    I HTI.L END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
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    I HUL END - HAWKINS HUL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
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    I HTI..L END - HAWKINS HTI..L[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HTI..L HERITAGE SWDY[...]of Australia shaft. It is located at the eastern end
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    I
    I HERMAN SHAFT ( 1)

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    [...]ITm: NAME


    I HTI..L END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]962)
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    [...]ITEM NAME


    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]d which runs down the western side
    I of Hawkins Hill. A stone retaining wall for an earlier roa[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]and up the contour of the western side of Hawkins Hill, is a linear
    I depression, appar[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END -HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]number of early claims across the main Hawkins Hill strike.


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    I MONITOR SHAFT

    I HJLL END - HAWKINS HILL HERIT.liGE STUDY[...]located in a flat area along the ride of Hawkins Hill. The condition of the shaft is
    I unclear[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME


    I HTI..L END - HAWKINS HTI..L HERITAGE STUDY[...]
    [...]---------------------
    '!WO SHAFTS

    I HTI..L END - HAWKINS HTI..L HERITAGE STUD[...]
    [...]ITil1 NAME


    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]IPTION:

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    I of Hawkins Hill. It is overgrown with blackberries.



    I[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

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    I A small collapsed shaft cut into the hill above and adjacent to an early road along the western side
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    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
    [...]r!'EM NAME


    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME


    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HUL END - HAWKINS HUL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
    [...]I'fElol NAME


    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]-850 contour level along western side Ctf Hawkins Hill.
    Location and construction of wall i[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HUL END - HAWKINS HUL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
    [...]rrEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]ted wrought iron construction with
    I gussetted end plates and has three Galloway tubes inters[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
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    I HILL END -HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
    [...]rrEM NAME

    I HUL END - HAWKINS HUL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I Hll..L END - HAWKINS Hll..L HERITAGE SWDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]y, dates back to the first
    I working of Hawkins Hill in the 1870s. Four reef were worked; Frenchmans,[...]n 1902, but was
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    [...]ITEM NAME


    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]attery depicted in Harper's 1'671 view of Havkins Hill.


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    I HILL END - HAWKINS •HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]he 855 in contour, on the western side of Hawkins Hill> SW of the Carnelian
    Dam, within the L[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HTI..L END - HAWKINS HTI..L HERITAGE STUDY[...]uns along the southern side of a ridge in Hawkins Hill, along the
    870m contour, towards the Carn[...]rm of mining
    relic now evident on Hawkins Hill.
    I
    SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STIJDY[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HUL END - HAm<INS HUL HERITAGE STUDY[...]ing landscape area on the western side of Hawkins Hill.



    I
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE STUDY[...](?)


    I LOCATION: Eastern side of Prince Albert Hill
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    I Hll.L END - HAWKINS Hll.L HERITAGE STUDY[...]apsed shaft on the eastern slope of Prince Alfred Hill close to
    the retaining wall. The shaft[...]
    [...]•
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    I
    I •


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    I HTI...L END - HAWKINS HTI...L HERITAGE STUDY[...]ning directly down the east face of Prince Alfred Hill.
    Its age and purpose are unknown but i[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME


    I HJLL END - HAWKINS HTI..L HERITAGE S1UDY[...]
    I
    I GREAT NORTHERN SHAFT


    I HJLL END - HAWKINS HJLL HERITAGE SWDY[...]71

    I LOCATION: Fig 1. East slope Prince Alfred Hill.
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    1871 and 1873 a[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HTI.L HERITAGE STUDY[...]
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    I HJLL END - HAWKINS HTI.L HERITA[...]he Exhibition

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    [...]ITEM NAME


    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE SWDY[...]best set of traditional mining relics on Hawkins Hill including shaft and small
    head water[...]
    [...]ITEM NAME

    I HTI.L END - HAWKINS Hll.L HERITAGE SWDY[...]a small earth race which runs
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    I HTI..L END - HAWKINS HTI..L HERITAGE STUDY[...]
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    I HILL END - HAWKINS HILL HERITAGE S1UDY[...]
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    I HJLL END - HAWKINS HJLL HERITAGE STUD[...]
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    HAWKINS HILL MINING LEASES - ORIGINAL CLAIMS.

    I[...]
    [...]l END[...]

    MD

    [...]t. Work undertaken at Extending from the southern end of Hill End towards the Turon River some 300m below. T[...]
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