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CATHERINE REEF UNITED COMPANY GOLD MINE
LODDON VALLEY HIGHWAY EAGLEHAWK, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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Statement of Significance

The Catherine Reef United Company Gold Mine remains consist of sets of engine and battery foundations. These are remnants of quartz mining carried on at the site between 1861 and 1913. In its early period this mine was considered the second most important in Victoria behind the Port Phillip Company at Clunes. The engines and battery were intimately connected with the technology of quartz mining which required steam power to pound the quartz to sand in order to extract the gold.

The Catherine Reef United Company Gold Mine is of historical, archaeological and scientific importance to the State of Victoria.

The Catherine Reef United Company Gold Mine is historically and scientifically important as a characteristic example of an important form of gold mining. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria. As well as being a significant producer of Victoria's nineteenth century wealth, quartz mining, with its intensive use of machinery, played an important role in the development of Victorian manufacturing industry. The Catherine Reef United Company Gold Mine is important for its manifestation of this facet of gold mining.

The Catherine Reef United Company Gold Mine is archaeologically important for its potential to yield artefacts and evidence which will be able to provide significant information about the technological history of gold mining.

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- Permit Exemptions
  
  CATHERINE REEF UNITED COMPANY GOLD MINE - 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.
  Places of worship: In some circumstances, you can alter a place of worship to accommodate religious practices without a permit, but you must notify the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria before you start the works or activities at least 20 business days before the works or activities are to commence.
  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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  Specific Exemptions:
  EXEMPTIONS FROM PERMITS:
  
  No permits are required for the following classes of works provided they are
  carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Conservation Plan For
  Historic Mining Sites prepared by David Bannear in 1996.
  
  Mineral Exploration
  Fire suppression duties
  Timber production
  Weed and vermin control
  Public safety
  Rehabilitation
- Show:
- EAGLEHAWK TOWN HALL, MECHANICS INSTITUTE AND TWO HMVS NELSON CANNONS
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H0713
- EAGLEHAWK COURT HOUSE, MAGISTRATES COURT AND LOCK-UP
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1401
- VIRGINIA MINE, EAGLEHAWK
  
  Victorian Heritage Inventory
- 'CARINYA' LADSONS STORE
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H0568
- 1 Alexander Street
  
  Yarra City
- 1 Botherambo Street
  
  Yarra City

All information on this page is maintained by Heritage Victoria. Click below for their website and contact details.

Victorian Heritage Register

Record Details

Place ID
5016
Location
LODDON VALLEY HIGHWAY EAGLEHAWK, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Municipality
GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Heritage Listing
Victorian Heritage Register
Level of significance
Registered
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number
H1232

Heritage Overlay Numbers
HO372
Extent of Registration

NOTICE OF REGISTRATION

As Executive Director for the purpose of the Heritage Act, I give notice under Section 46 that the Victorian Heritage Register is amended by including the Heritage Register Number 1232 in the category described as a Heritage Place and Archaeological Place:

Catherine Reef United Company Gold Mine, Loddon Valley Highway, Eaglehawk, Greater Bendigo Council.

EXTENT:

1. All of the remnants of buildings marked B-1 to B-6 (brick foundations), B-7 (timber foundations) and B-8 (stone foundations) on diagram number 607532 held by the Executive Director of the Heritage Council.

2. All the land marked L-1 (including all archaeological deposits) on diagram 607532 held by the Executive Director of the Heritage Council.

Dated 7 November 1996

RAY TONKIN
Executive Director
[Victoria Government Gazette No. G8 27 February 1997 p.462]
Year Construction Started
1861
VHR Registration
February 27, 1997
Heritage Act Categories
Registered place Registered archaeological place
Category

Mining and Mineral Processing