page_title: No. 1 Scottish Gympie Mine and Battery
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: No. 1 Scottish Gympie Mine and Battery / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Scottish Gympie Gold Mine, No. 2 shaft, 1900 No. 2 shaft and mine buildings, including a tall brick chimney.
context_page_description: No. 1 Scottish Gympie Mine and Battery is a heritage-listed mine at Old Brisbane Road, Monkland, Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1889 to c. 1923. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
context_section_description: The lease occupied by the site was taken up in 1889 as the "No.1 Eastern" mine, forfeited and taken up as the No.3 Great Eastern mine in 1891, but went into liquidation soon thereafter. Gympie Goldmines (Eastern Monkland) Company was formed, and was sold to Scottish investors in 1895, becoming the Scottish Gympie Gold Mines Limited with its head office in Glasgow.
  By the following year the shaft was down 1,433 feet (437 m), the deepest on the field. At this time companies started considering cyaniding their tailings dumps and the company increased the number of stampers in its battery by 50 in 1898. In 1904 the battery was reported to have 125 head of stamps and 394 men employed, and to be raising 7,000 long tons (7,100 t) of ore for crushing each year, with an estimated ore reserve for another ten years.
  The company closed the mine in 1923 and in the following year a syndicate of 19 men was formed to purchase the lease over the shaft and winding gear, and mining recommenced intermittently. However the lease was relinquished in 1924 and an auction sale of machinery held. In 1927 W. Runge and O. Alexander took over the mine and battery site and established a cyaniding plant. The leases were held by the Runge family until taken over by the Gympie City Council.
  The mine was the most productive in the Gympie goldfield producing 608,279 ounces (17,244,400 g) of gold from 1,589,162 long tons (1,614,663 t) of ore between 1867 and 1923.
caption: Scottish Gympie Gold Mine, No. 2 shaft, 1900
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