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GREAT SOUTHERN MINE
27-41 Hodson Road WARRANDYTE, Manningham City

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Statement of Significance

The Great Southern Mine and the Sailor's Reef Mine are of local historical significance as physical evidence of Warrandyte's gold-mining past of the period from 1872 to 1903, particularly the mid 1880s and the Great Southern Mine for its association with the early miner, Ben Logan.

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    • Physical Description 1

      GREAT SOUTHERN MINE - Physical Description 1

      The Great Southern Mine ran NNE mid-way between the east end of Hodgsons Road and the creek, parallel to the Warrandyte Main South Anticline. It consisted of three shafts, each 4-6 feet wide : a north shaft 100 feet deep, terminating in a short tunnel along the bottom of the seam, a central shaft about 120 feet deep, 80 feet further south and a further 80 feet further south, a south shaft about 50 feet deep. It is on private property.

      The Sailor's Reef Mine was almost parallel to and east of Gold Memorial Road at about no. 34, just north of a small creek. There are quarry excavations on the road here.

      Because they are on private property, the location or even existence of these mines is now not generally known.

      Other Gold mines in Warrandyte include Black Flat : the Dyke (1876), Black Swan Mine and Caledonia Mine (1903-1910); Fourth Hill & Whipstick Gully : Fourth Hill Tunnel (1856-8), Fifth Hill West Mine, Johnson's Mine, Gardeners Mine, Victory Mine (1896), Mantons Mine (1951-65)

      other : South Caledonia Mine and Pigtail Mine (c1874)

      Physical Description 2

      GREAT SOUTHERN MINE - Physical Description 2

      Associations

      Ben Logan

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review

      Author: Context Pty Ltd
      Year: 2006
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