YANKEE CREEK ALLUVIAL WORKINGS

YANKEE ROAD LERDERDERG, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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    YANKEE CREEK ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - History

    Heritage Inventory History of Site: When the Blackwood Rush peaked in September 1855 there were some 13,000 diggers on the field. By this time, most of the locations which were to become famous for their alluvial gold had been opened: such as, Golden Point, Nuggetty Gully, Long Gully, Yankee Gully, Frenchman’s Gully and Dead Horse Gully. The actual bed of the Lerderderg River (and tributaries) was the main focus of alluvial mining. In some places, however, such as along Yankee Creek, high level terraces (Tertiary gravels) were also found to be gold bearing. The mining register reported the Yankee Creek Sluicing Company working the creek in the mid 1860s.

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    YANKEE CREEK ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - Heritage Inventory Description

    Alluvial workings - Extensive sluicing workings are located along the western bank of Yankee Creek. One of the most notable feature of the workings is a small open cut which has an adit, a stone retained dam, small intact pebble dump and drainage channels. Below this site are more adits/open cuts, stone-retained pebble dumps and drainage channels.

    Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has:Scientific significance - because of the intactness of the workings.Network values - alluvial works lie in close proximity to a range of quartz mining relics (Countess and Yankee reefs)SIGNIFICANCE RANKING: Regional

    Recorded by: David Bannear

    Heritage Inventory Site Features: Alluvial workings.

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