18-841: The Hercules Haulage , also known as the Mount Read Haulage , the Hercules Tram and the Williamsford Haulage Line , was a self-acting 2 ft ( 610 mm ) narrow gauge tramway on the side of Mount Read in Western Tasmania , that connected the Hercules Mine with Williamsford and then to the North East Dundas Tramway . The Haulage was created to move ores from the Hercules Mine on Mount Read. The mine
36-561: A history, similar to that of Mount Lyell , with mines, settlements and other activities on its slopes for over a hundred years. The main copper and gold ore bearing deposits in the West Coast Range are known to occur in the Mount Read Volcanics relating to the complex geology of the area. Mineralisation and deposits were being identified well beyond the life of the original mines utilised on Mount Read. To
54-527: A maximum gradient of 1 in 5. The mine was in production in the late nineteenth century. It had a major strike in 1906. The mine produced well into the mid twentieth century. The mine site had ceased operation and was subject to cleanup processes in the early 2000s. The Hercules Gold and Silver Mining Company was an operating company that ceased in 1916. The Mount Read and Rosebery Mines Limited started as an ex-Mount Lyell offshoot, absorbed by EZ by 1925. The community, mainly known in early sources as
72-591: A northerly direction to Rosebery, some literature confuses the two separate systems. This Tasmania geography article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mount Read (Tasmania) Mount Read is a mountain located in the West Coast region of Tasmania , Australia, and is at the north west edge of the West Coast Range . With an elevation of 1,123 metres (3,684 ft) above sea level , Mount Read has had as colourful
90-880: A par with the Lake Margaret rainfall – which was still apparently recorded till 30 June 2006 by Hydro employees, but not appearing on the BOM website. It has one of the highest annual rain day amount in the world at 282 days, topping Cherrapunji in India, but falling behind Mount Waialeale in Hawaii and López de Micay in Colombia, which have 335 and 315 rainy days respectively. Its monthly temperature averages are comparable to those of Reykjavík in Iceland. Snowfalls are highly frequent and often very heavy, occurring at all times of
108-504: A special habitat enclosed in the Lake Johnston Nature Reserve. Mount Read has an alpine subpolar oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification : Cfc ), bordering on a tundra climate ( Köppen climate classification : ET ). It currently has a Bureau of Meteorology automatic weather station in place, and it scores well in extreme weather conditions. Its extreme rainfall records for Autumn 2006 put it on
126-654: Is also called Lake Margaret. The dam was constructed in 1918 by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company for the purpose of generating hydro-electric power via the Lake Margaret Power Station , which is located below the dam wall. Following the closure of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, in 1985 the control of the dam, lake, and power station was transferred to Hydro Tasmania . The dam, called Lake Margaret,
144-494: The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company commissioned seven conventional Pelton turbine generators with a capacity of 8.3 megawatts (11,100 hp ) at the Upper Lake Margaret Power Station. Hydro Tasmania took ownership of the power station in 1985. Water travels from Lake Margaret through a woodstave 2.2-kilometre (1.4 mi) pipeline to the power station. In 1931 a minihydro plant
162-651: The Mount Read township surrounding the Hercules minesite had various struggles for services and facilities. The hotel is mentioned as early as 1898 Situated at 1000 metres Mount Read (township) was the most elevated town which has existed in Tasmania Despite extensive historic mining and human activity on its slopes, Mount Read has unique and significant stands of Huon pine forests on its slopes. The southern slopes of Mount Read have been identified as
180-450: The West Coast Range. Mount Sedgwick is to the south. The Bastion, at 1,107 metres (3,632 ft), which is a steep cliff face that is immediately west of Lake Magdala and north of Mount Geikie, together with Farquhar Lookout, with an elevation of 935 metres (3,068 ft), define a rough line of the northern part of the 21-square-kilometre (8.1 sq mi) catchment area . Numerous smaller lakes – some named and some not – lie above
198-492: The area lies to the south east side of Mount Sedgwick and is known as Lake Beatrice . The initial purpose of Lake Margaret when it was constructed by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was to generate hydroelectric power for the Queenstown -based Mount Lyell mine, railway, and surrounding community. While the mine has since closed, the purpose of Lake Margaret to generate power remains unchanged. Between 1918 and 1930
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#1732801767547216-948: The dam wall was strengthened by the use of prestressed anchors and grouting of open joints. The Lake Margaret dam impounds the Yolande River, which also is the outflow from the dam. Further west the Yolande joins with the Langdon River , another West Coast Range west flowing river, to join with the Henty River west of the Zeehan Highway . The 170-hectare (420-acre) reservoir, also called Lake Margaret, with an elevation of 660 metres (2,170 ft) AHD , lies east of Mount Cyril, that has an elevation of 797 metres (2,615 ft), and south of Mount Geikie , that has an elevation of 1,191 metres (3,907 ft), both in
234-630: The location of the Lake Margaret. The vesting of the catchment with the current operator of the hydro electric power station, makes the two feeder parts of the catchment specific Hydro land in contrast to the surrounding landscape which is either in the Tyndall Regional Reserve or the Lake Beatrice Conservation Area. The two southern feeder Hydro reserves start from the slopes of Mount Sedgwick,
252-474: The south east of Mount Read are many features of glaciation in the Tyndall Range as well as glacial lakes of Lake Westwood , Lake Selina , and Lake Julia. The Hercules Mine on Mount Read was connected by a 1,642-foot (500 m) haulage incline to Williamsford and then to the North East Dundas Tramway . The haulage was self-acting and 1-mile (1.6 km) long and 1,642 feet (500 m) high with
270-549: The westerly from Lake Barnables (less than one kilometre (zero point six two miles) east of Lake Margaret), then to Lake Phillip. The eastern feeder starts at an unnamed lake to Lake Polycarp, Lake Peter, Lake Paul, Lake Apollos, and then to Lake Phillip. The northern feeder starts from Lake Monica, Lake Myra, then Lake Magdala, situated at 782 metres (2,566 ft) AHD , Lake Martha, at 757 metres (2,484 ft), and Lake Mary, at 732 metres (2,402 ft), before flowing into Lake Margaret. The larger lower altitude natural lake of
288-527: The year. The mean afternoon relative humidity is the greatest anywhere in Australia, particularly in the cooler months. Lake Margaret (Tasmania) Lake Margaret is a concrete-faced gravity dam with an uncontrolled spillway across the Yolande River , located on the north side of Mount Sedgwick , in the West Coast Range , West Coast of Tasmania , Australia . The impounded reservoir
306-472: Was completed in 1918 and it was the first gravity dam constructed in Tasmania. It was built of concrete with conglomerate "plums". The dam wall is 17 metres (56 ft) high and is 243 metres (797 ft) long and the concrete-faced dam wall has a volume of 6,000 cubic metres (210,000 cu ft). The uncontrolled spillway has a capacity of 29 cubic metres per second (1,000 cu ft/s ). In 1974
324-548: Was operational between the 1890s and the 1980s, and closed in 2000; rehabilitation works commenced in 2005. The haulage was "self acting", one mile (1.6 km) long and 1,642 feet (550m) high with a maximum gradient of 1 in 5. It was claimed to be the largest and steepest self-acting tramway of its kind. On the closure of the NE Dundas Tramway, the Aerial Ropeway from Hercules was built which took ore in
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