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hotels, dance halls and hall were built for plays to come to the town which they did in plenty. There came circuses and the children got excited and followed to see the horses and elephants going through the town to get somewhere to camp and build their tents. Those entertainments came very often because there was plenty of money about
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In an interview in 2019 Frank Grey's daughter, Jeanette, added a personal note about her father's fluoride promotion. At the time she was a budding singer and had been told that keeping her teeth was necessary to sing well. She claims this further prompted Grey to follow the research occurring in the
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In 2006 the participants in the unincorporated
Beaconsfield Mine Joint Venture (BMJV), which operated the Beaconsfield Mine, were the Allstate group (Asx:ALX - delisted) with a 51.51% interest and the Beaconsfield Gold group (Asx:BCD - delisted) with a 48.49% interest. Allstate managed the BMJV, with
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Beaconsfield in 1847. When the gold rush hit Victoria and New South Wales in 1851 and the Tasmanian Government offered a reward for the discovery of a payable goldfield. In 1877 the cap of a payable gold reef was discovered on the eastern slope of Cabbage Tree Hill by
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English company bought the Tasmanian Gold Mining and Quartz Crushing company and formed the Tasmanian Gold Mining Company Ltd. As water had become such a huge problem at Beaconsfield, a substantial injection of capital was required to purchase and operate suitable dewatering equipment.
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Tuesday 25 April 2006, a small earthquake caused a rock fall in the Beaconsfield gold mine. Fourteen miners escaped safely, one miner, Larry Knight, was killed, and the remaining two, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, were trapped in a shaft approximately one kilometre underground. The two trapped
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has carried out drilling of the depth extension of the
Tasmania Reef. A permanent stage pumping station 181 m below ground had been lowering the water in the shaft since August 1995. The permanent winder and head frame were completed in January 1996 and the shaft finished in late 1996. An ore
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The town began its early life as "Brandy Creek" because of the colour of the water in the creek where the gold was originally discovered. "The growing civic consciousness found voice in the demand for a new name for the town and in March 1879 Brandy Creek was renamed
Beaconsfield, after Lord
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that supported water fluoridation to improve dental health. With permission of the
Tasmanian Director of Public Health and the Chief Health Inspector, Grey oversaw the introduction of fluoride to the town water supply.
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The gold mine closed in 1914 due to regular flooding of the shafts but re-opened in 1999 with mixed success. To 1914, the mine was worked to a depth of 450 metres and produced 800,000 ounces of gold. In 1982, the
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Company extracted gold from two shafts adjacent to each other, Grubb and Hart Shafts. In 1904 engine houses were built at these shafts and a central boiler house. These buildings now house the
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brothers William and David Dally. This became known as the fabulous Tasmanian Reef. In October 1877 the Dally brothers sold their claim on the Tasmania Reef to
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708:"Placenames Tasmania – Beaconsfield"
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338:Hart Shaft winder house dated 1904.
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141:Federal division(s)
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908:deListed Australia
882:deListed Australia
633:"Post Office List"
553:studies in the USA
543:Water fluoridation
510:2006 mine collapse
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371:Beaconsfiel
308:2016 census
276:Tamar River
178:Tamar River
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1195:Categories
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575:Population
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461:Hart Shaft
300:Launceston
292:West Tamar
284:Launceston
114:Launceston
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396:Geography
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360:Limestone
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197:Sidmouth
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1165:41°12′S
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560:USA.
1134:OCLC
1124:ISBN
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