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Jerejaw Reef Mine
off Centre Road ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

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SD 051 - Jerejaw Reef Mine

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

The Jerejaw Reef Mine dates from the 1860s to 1880s and the remaining features include mullock heaps, shafts and a rare surviving whim platform, although it is in poor condition. The Jerejaw Reef Mine Site is historically and scientifically important at a LOCAL level as a substantially intact example of an important gold mining technique. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria.

Overall the Jerejaw Reef Mine Site is of LOCAL significance.

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- Physical Description 1
  
  Jerejaw Reef Mine - Physical Description 1
  
  Site 82.0. JereJaw Reef (Principal mining period for the reef spanned 1860s to 1880s). Reef workings. Line of bulldozed small mullock heaps/filled shafts. Whim platform. Associated with the largest of the mullock heaps are the remains of a poorly preserved circular whim platform.
  
  INTEGRITY/CONDITION: Poor.
  
  CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:
  
  The site has:
  
  . Scientific Significance, because of the survival of a whim platform. Remains of horse-powered haulage whims, once very common on goldfields, are now quite rare in Victoria. Unlike the whim platforms found on Lisles Reef, Maldon, this site has little context.
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
  
  Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
  Year: 2004
  Grading: Local
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