Geoffrey Blainey describes the appearance prior to its being mined:[1]
They (Those mentioned above) examined the strange formation. It jutted twenty or thirty feet above the surface and was split by deep cracks and crevices as if a great explosion had fractured the rock and flung slabs far down the hill...(they)... had seen no similar outcrop in their brief mining experience. What lay beneath the ironstone crust?
Miningedit
early stages of working the Iron Blow in 1884
The first shot on the site was in January 1884 - and most local prospectors were camped in the Linda Valley to the east of the Mount Owen - Mount Lyell ridge - also known as Philosophers Ridge
The townsite of Penghana, the present site of Queenstown - to the west was still thick rainforest.
The transport of ore from the Iron Blow down to the operations area of the mine linking to the railway, was by the commonly known Haulage, although more technical terms included Self Acting Haulage.[3]
Foot of the Haulage line in early 1890s
Foot of the Haulage line in the 1895
Foot of the Haulage line by 1900 with denuded landscape showing
End of the eraedit
The cessation of the Iron Blow mining was also linked in with the demise of the Mount Lyell pyritic smelting - the cessation of Robert Carl Sticht's smelters and methods.[4]
The development of the West Lyell Open cut, and the later development of the Prince Lyell ore bodies removed all vestiges of the original workings.
^The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited (1994) A Century of Copper Queenstown, Tasmania page 6,
^"THE HAULAGE". Zeehan and Dundas Herald. Vol. XVI, no. 243. Tasmania, Australia. 27 July 1905. p. 4. Retrieved 19 September 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^Geoffrey Blainey, The Peaks of Lyell, Third edition, Chapter 25 'The End of an Era',p.260
Further readingedit
Whitham, Charles (2003). Western Tasmania - A land of riches and beauty (Reprint 2003 ed.). Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.
External linksedit
"The Old Iron Blow Mine". Retrieved 23 January 2010.
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