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SPECIMEN GULLY QUARTZ MINING ASSOCIATION GOLD MINE
SPECIMEN GULLY ROAD BARKERS CREEK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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SPECIMEN GULLY QUARTZ MINING ASSOCIATION GOLD MINE SOHE 2008

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The Specimen Gully Quartz Mining Association Gold Mine consists of stone foundations of a chimney stack and flue, and an engine house. Other surviving mine works include a haulage adit, open cut, shafts, carting tracks and a large water dam. These are remnants of quartz mining carried on at the site between 1859 and 1930s. The visible mining foundations appear to date to the mine's earliest period, when the mine was operated by the Specimen Gully Quartz Mining Association, the first public quartz mining company to work on the Castlemaine goldfield.

The Specimen Gully Quartz Mining Association Gold Mine is of historical, archaeological and scientific importance to the State of Victoria.

The Specimen Gully Quartz Mining Association 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 Specimen Gully Quartz Mining Association Gold Mine is scientifically important for it has some of the earliest quartz mining relics in Victoria, dating from 1859-61 mining operations. The place is also historically important because of its proximity to spot where the first gold on the Castlemaine goldfield was discovered.

The Specimen Gully Quartz Mining Association 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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Record Details

Place ID
5019
Location
SPECIMEN GULLY ROAD BARKERS CREEK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Municipality
MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Heritage Listing
Victorian Heritage Register
Level of significance
Registered
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number
H1235

Heritage Overlay Numbers
HO697
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 1235 in the category described as a Heritage and Archaeological Place:

Specimen Gully Quartz Mining Association Gold Mine, Specimen Gully Track, Barkers Creek, near Castlemaine, Mount Alexander Shire Council.

Extent:

1. All of the Crown Land including the remains of the engine house, flue and chimney base, mine workings, and other quartz mining artefacts within a 200 metre radius with Australian Map Grid co-ordinates E565 N981 on 1:1000,000 map sheet number 7723 Castlemaine.

Dated 7 November 1996

RAY TONKIN
Executive Director
[Victoria Government Gazette No. G47 28 November 1996 p.3074]
Year Construction Started
1859
VHR Registration
November 28, 1996
Heritage Act Categories
Registered place Registered archaeological place
Category

Mining and Mineral Processing