WALHALLA CONSOLS MINE

BRITANNIA SPUR TRACK WALHALLA, BAW BAW SHIRE

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    WALHALLA CONSOLS MINE - History

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    WALHALLA CONSOLS MINE - Heritage Inventory Description

    /nThe site is located at the head of a gully and requires serious scub bashing to visit. The surviving mining features are obscured by vegetation and include an open shaft, large intact mullock heap with well defined dumping lines, arrangement of machinery foundations, and vertical stone flue leading to remnants of square stone chimney stack. The flue may be associated with a boiler and/or roasting oven.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: This site has: Historical significance: Mine and battery relics associated with Walhalla's peak mining period, when the field was second only to Bendigo in gold production. Scientific significance: Site contains a range of well preserved features, which document the different mining operations undertaken on the site. Archaeological potential: The site has good integrity and high potential to yield artefacts and evidence , which will be able to provide significant information about the technology. Network values: The range of historical features, in combination with an extensive photographic record and physical attributes of the Stringers Creek Valley produce one of the State's most evocative and unique cultural landscapes.

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