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WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT
246 MONUMENT ROAD MOLIAGUL, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

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WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT SOHE 2008
WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT SOHE 2008
WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT SOHE 2008
WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT SOHE 2008
WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT SOHE 2008
WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT SOHE 2008
WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT SOHE 2008
1 welcome stranger moliagul monument
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Statement of Significance

The Welcome Stranger Gold Mining Precinct is good characteristic example of surface mining for alluvial gold. The site consists of the sites of puddling machines, houses and campsites at the head of black gully near Moliagul. The precinct displays evidence which is typical of the prevailing early gold mining technology of the box-ironbark forests of central and western Victoria from the 1850s. It contains a monument erected in 1897 at the place where the Welcome Stranger nugget was found in 1869. The nugget was the largest ever recorded and contained nearly 96 kilograms of gold.

The Welcome Stranger Gold Mining Precinct is of historical, archaeological and scientific importance to the State of Victoria.

The Welcome Stranger Gold Mining Precinct is historically and scientifically important as a particularly fine and essentially intact example of a site associated with the earliest forms of gold mining which, from 1851, played a pivotal role in the development of Victoria. The site is particularly important for its associations with the Welcome Stranger nugget, the largest ever found.

The Welcome Stranger Gold Mining Precinct is archaeologically important for its potential to yield artefacts which will be able to provide significant information about the cultural history of gold mining and the gold seekers themselves.

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      WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT - Permit Exemptions

      General Exemptions:

      General exemptions apply to all places and objects included in the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR). General exemptions have been designed to allow everyday activities, maintenance and changes to your property, which don’t harm its cultural heritage significance, to proceed without the need to obtain approvals under the Heritage Act 2017.

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      Subdivision/consolidation: Permit exemptions exist for some subdivisions and consolidations. If the subdivision or consolidation is in accordance with a planning permit granted under Part 4 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and the application for the planning permit was referred to the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria as a determining referral authority, a permit is not required.

      Specific exemptions may also apply to your registered place or object. If applicable, these are listed below. Specific exemptions are tailored to the conservation and management needs of an individual registered place or object and set out works and activities that are exempt from the requirements of a permit. Specific exemptions prevail if they conflict with general exemptions.

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