Talisker near Cape Jervis. The ruins of the silver mine at Talisker are here. It operated from 1862 to 1872. This was the view from the mine managers office across to Kangaroo Island. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Talisker near Cape Jervis. The ruins of the silver mine at Talisker are here. It operated from 1862 to 1872. This was the view from the mine managers office across to Kangaroo Island. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Talisker Silver Mine and Silverton town.This silver and lead mine at Talisker was the biggest silver/lead mine in the colony eclipsing Glen Osmond which had the first silver/lead mine. The town at the mine site was named Silverton and it was a very Cornish settlement as most miners came from there. But the mine itself was named after Talisker, a place on the Isle of Sky Scotland known, even today, for its whisky distillery. The two men who discovered the mine were Scots – John and Donald McLeod who were born there. After they discovered the deposit in 1862 the McLeod’s applied for a mining lease and formed the Talisker Mining Company. Shortly afterwards another mining lease was taken out by the Campbell Creek Silver Lead Mining Company. The Campbell Creek Company never found worthwhile deposits of silver and closed in 1868. The Talisker Mine, however, had much greater success. Cornish miners were sent by ship from Glenelg to the site and within a month the first load of ore was shipped to England and the village of Silverton began to emerge. The ore was shipped from nearby Fishery Beach. The mine was soon employing 20 men and had seven shafts up to 130 metres deep. The ore here produced 25% lead as well as silver. In 1863 the Mining Company built a stone crushing plant and dressing plant which both still remain on the site. More buildings followed including the mine manager’s house, a brick kiln (1869), the enginehouse, the calcinating furnace which removed arsenic (1865) etc. In 1865 a smelting plant was also erected. All the smelted ore was carted by wagons down to Fishery Beach for shipping to England. By 1870 the main shaft was delivering less silver. It had reached a depth of 132 metres and the pump house was struggling to pump enough water out of the shaft to allow mining. The mine closed in 1872 and the Cornish miners were all offered employment at the Moonta and Wallaroo mines. The mine re-opened in 1890 and closed in 1891 and then again between 1917 and 1925 when it was operated intermittently to obtain arsenic. Production in its first ten years from 1862 netted £46,000 for the Company but no dividend was ever paid out to investors. The old mine site is now part of Talisker Conservation Park.The town of “Silverton” was surveyed just outside the mining lease land in 1864 and at its peak it had around 300 residents. It began with 13 town blocks which was soon increased to 52 town blocks. It had a licensed hotel, a Post Office, a Wesleyan Church, a bank and a school. Most of these structures were basic and did not survive. The Wesleyan Church opened in 1867 and closed in 1875 three years after the mine closed. The private school began 1867 and closed in 1871 just before the mine closed. The other shacks and structures soon disappeared and the hotel burnt down, probably by an arsonist 1872. The remains of only one miner’s cottage on the mining lease lands remains. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-11-07 14:47:47 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | SM-A505YN , samsung |
| 露出 | 1/3745 sec |
| 開放F値 | f/1.7 |