SoUVENIR-CHARTERS TOWERS, 1872 TO JULY, 1950

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Mine," owned and operated by Mr. Joe Donovan, situated about four miles from the Town.
This mine is on the Imperial line of
Jade. It wvas wvorked originally by Mr. Donovan, senior, about the years, 1930-2. The father of the present owner always maintained that values would be located in this mine and Mr. Joe Donovan prom­ised his father on his death bed that he would work the mine and prove his father's theory.
After returning from war service in World War II, Joe Donovan commenced 10 work the mine in April. 1946. and to date five crushings have been put through the Venus Mill.
	1949 34½ tons averaged 2½ozs. per ton.
	1949 lIt tons averaged just over 2 ounces per ton.
	1949 50½ tons averaged just over 3 	Ounces per ton.
	1949 51 ½ tons a verag.ed 87 ounces.
	January, 1950 91 tons sands and con­centrates still to come wvill bring the value to approximately 30zs. per ton.


Work ceased owing to Adams' re­ceiving a military call up, but work again commenced about July, 1949. Mr. Dakyn Peberdy, of Townsville, acquired a half share of the mine with Adams and a new shaft has been sunk. Plant has been put on the site and a small trial crushing of ore won from sinking of the new shaft was put through the Venus Mill, Charters Towers, in Febru­ary, 1950, values being approximately
20zs. per ton.
This reef although fairly rich is also very' small. averaging about 9 inches in width.
As the earlier crushings from this mine averaged about 3 ounces per ton, 1t is looked forward ww,ith interest to see wwhat results are forthcoming from this new venture.

Tuckett Bros.
These two bothers, Tom and Daw'e, could be regarded as twvo of the most experienced millers in the district to­day'.
Having- wvorked in many of the deeper mines of the field they proceeded to "SaJa Siding" in 1926, and opened up the "Welcome Gold Mline."
On this site a five-head battery was erected together wwith cyanide plant. A shaft was sunk to a vertical depth of
83 feet and a tonnage of 3000 tons of ore recovered for a value of almost £10,000 (gold at the old price).
In 1935 the Tuckett Bros. re-opened
the "Rose of Allandale" mine and up to
1950 have produced about 800 tons of ore valued at approximately £15 per ton.
With the increased price of gold, Tom and Dave Tuckett have now de­cided to return to the "Welcome" lease and intend to strip down the shaft and


Date		Tons Cwt.	Bullion Gold Yield	Stand Value		Sands Assay (dwts)	Total Value


May, 1941 	20 12	29	0	90 7 8		24	6	225 19 2
Oct., 1941 	21  2	26	3	75 5 9				188 4 4
Dec., 1941	20 13	32	4	96 17 4		28	2 	242 3 4
		62  7							646 6 10

	Tons		Fine Ozs		Fins Oze		Total Value
April, 1942	7.0290	21.3682		 11.9493 	approx	213
August, 1942	15.0950	136.4192 	45.2850 		1364
September, 1942	10.970	20.6307		13.7		206
			32 tOnS 6 cwt.					£1783