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- The original Day Dawn PC together with the No . 2 to the west were underlie shafts.
- The mine was worked from at least four claims and had underlie shafts at least 118m long.
- Gold mining in Charters Towers was characterised by deep underlie shafts with levels striking the various reefs that ran through the field.
- An underlie shaft had been driven to 2, 615 ft but no payable ore was found and operations were suspended in 1904 due to difficulty in ventilating the shafts.
- A new underlie shaft sunk in 1900 was equipped with winding plant ( engine and boiler ) made locally by Messrs Stuart and McKenzie of the Union Foundry, Croydon.
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- Vertical shafts were also a feature of the goldfield however not as common as the underlie shafts . ( There are approximately 200 km of mine shafts under Charter Towers .)
- The new company sank a shaft cutting the Day Dawn reef at 1, 100 ft . It was then taken to 1, 250 ft with an underlie shaft opened and sunk a further 50 ft . The No . 1 west level was driven 550 ft with only poor stone being found.
- The No . 3 shaft in the west was a vertical shaft to a depth of 560 ft . An underlie shaft then followed the lode and intersected a shoot at a depth of 1, 200 ft . It was when this shaft was connected to the No . 2 shaft at the No . 14 level that rock drills were first used with success on the goldfield : The North Queensland Register's Mining History of Charters Towers remarked that'. . . the ground was terrifically hard and the contractor Mr Beith, lost money .'