Lot 2663

Description

Western Australia mining. The Australia United Mining Company, 1899; Burbank’s Birthday Gold Mines, 1902; Florence Gold Mine, Menzies, 1898; The Gwalia Proprietary Limited, 1909; New Fitzroy Gold Mining, Kanowne, 1898 (only 30,000 shares on issue); The Red Hill (W.A) Gold Syndicate, 1899; The Red Hill Westralia Gold Mines, 1908; The Westralia Mount Morgans Gold Mines Company, 1904. Very fine - extremely fine. (8)

The Australia United Mining Company, promoted by the Stafford Syndicate and Lord Fingall, was registered on 29 August 1896 to acquire and work two mining areas situated about 100 miles from Menzies in the Mount Malcolm district of Western Australia. Up to the end of February 1898 a total of 378 tons of ore had been crushed yielding 2,296 oz of gold.