Lake Consols excites me also. Check out what they were getting out of it back in 1898..
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14189465/1356158
November 1898, they crushed 6649 tons, for 8088 oz's.
That's a lot of 8's for the lucky Chinese! We need a few HNW Chinese to get on our register!!