Pullen and Rawsthorne's "Little Wonder" Stamper Battery, opposite the southern end of Clarke Street, Hill End -- [the battery which crushed the Holtermann Nugget - Lois Carrington (Oct 2005)]

1872
Glass photonegative

Pullen and Rawsthorne's Little Wonder Stamper Battery was situated opposite the southern end of Clarke Street. Built by Sydney engineering firm PNRussell, it featured a 20hp [15 Kw-h] steam engine driving a 15 head stamper, delivering 1050 blows a minute. It crushed the famous ‘Holtermann nugget’. Nearly 40 years later, William Pullen described the event in the Sydney Morning Herald, 10 January 1911.

It was with this battery I crushed Beyer and Holtermann's rich ore. It was Holtermann and myself that broke up the rich lump of reef, and crushed it with some 11 tons [10 tonnes] of ore from the same vein. The yield was 11,000 oz [312 g] in one cake.