Lolworth Creek Battery

The place is situated on the northern bank of Lolworth Creek at the base of a steep spur that forms a horseshoe bend in the creek. The place contains an intact five head stamp battery alongside a two-cylinder portable steam engine. Both items are located within the partly intact bush-timber frame of a battery shed. All corrugated iron cladding has been removed from the shed frame. Three earth-settling tanks reinforced with bush timber are located on the creek bank below the shed. A concreted ford across the creek serves as a low dam. The remains of a tailings sands dump and cyanide treatment area are also located on the creek bank. Above the battery there is evidence of a campsite, including the remains of a wood stove. An almost intact weighbridge with scales is a feature of this area.^[1]

Surviving plant includes:

• Five head stamp battery – Burns & Twigg Engineers Rockhampton
• Two-cylinder portable steam engine – no brand (Brown & May, Devizes?)
• Weighbridge platform – no brand (H. Pooley & Son)
• Scales - H. Pooley & Son Patentees Liverpool.^[1]

Lolworth Creek Battery was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 14 June 2003, having satisfied the following criteria.^[1]

The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.

The stamp battery is a representative, but now rare product of the local manufacturers, Burns & Twigg of Rockhampton. The two-cylinder portable steam engine is also rare and may be a product of engineers Brown & May of Devizes. The place also contains a rare surviving weighbridge with scales.^[1]

The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.

The Lolworth Creek battery is significant as a representative example of a small isolated battery and power plant of late 19th century design and manufacture still in use in the 1930s. The bush-timber frame of the battery shed is partly intact. Below the shed on the creek bank are three earth concentrate tanks which, with a group of rendered stone cyanide tanks and tailings sands, illustrate the crude processing technology. There is also evidence of a camp, including a metal wood stove.^[1]

The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.

The combination of surface ruins and natural setting creates a significant historical landscape.^[1]

This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).