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BLIND CREEK OCHRE MINE & PROCESSING SITE
OFF KINGOWER-ARNOLD ROAD KINGOWER, LODDON SHIRE

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1 blind creek ochre mine & processing site kooyoora state park view jun1998

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Statement of Significance

The site has a number of features which, according to local information, belong to a turn-of-the-century commercial operation to mine and process ochre. No primary historical information has so far been found for this site. The archaeological remains - burnt clay lumps, Chilean mill, drains, pits, dumps of ground ochre, and ochre mines (six shafts) - support the local interpretation for the site. The lack of diagnostic 1930s artefacts also helps place the site around the suggested date.

The Blind Creek Ochre Mine and Processing Site is of historical, archaeological and scientific importance to the State of Victoria.

The Blind Creek Ochre Mine and Processing Site is historically and scientifically important as the State's only known example of a rare type of mining. The mineral processing plant is also a very rare artefact, being only one of small number of surviving example of Chilean mills in the State – three quarters of the others being at a historic gold mine at Costerfield and at the site of an early brickworks near Rushworth.

The Blind Creek Ochre Mine and Processing Site is archaeologically important for its integrity and potential to yield artefacts on a hitherto unknown aspect of the State's post-settlement mining industry.

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  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:
  (Classes of works or activities which may be undertaken without a permit under
  Part 4 of the Heritage Act 1995)
  
  No permits are required for the following classes of works provided they are
  carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Conservation-Management
  Plan For Historic Mining Sites
  
  * Mineral Exploration
  * Fire suppression duties
  * Timber production
  * Weed and vermin control
  * Public safety
  * Rehabilitation
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Victorian Heritage Register

Record Details

Place ID
5511
Location
OFF KINGOWER-ARNOLD ROAD KINGOWER, LODDON SHIRE
Municipality
LODDON SHIRE
Heritage Listing
Victorian Heritage Register
Level of significance
Registered
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number
H1757

Heritage Overlay Numbers
HO142
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 1757 in the category described as a Heritage place, Archaeological place:

Blind Creek Ochre Mine and Processing Site, Junction of Parsons and Old Kingower Roads, Kooyoora State Park, Loddon Shire Council.

EXTENT:

1. All of the Crown land including the remnants of Ochre mines, Chilian mill, channels, pits, dumps and any archaeological objects and deposits within a radius of 250 metres of a point with Australian Map Grid co-ordinates E436 N480 on 1:100,000 map sheet number 7624 Dunolly. The land is part of Crown land parcel P123107.

Dated 5 November 1998.

RAY TONKIN

Executive Director

[Victoria Government Gazette G 47 26 November 1998 p.2887]
Year Construction Started
1900
VHR Registration
November 26, 1998
Heritage Act Categories
Registered place Registered archaeological place
Category

Mining and Mineral Processing