HARD HILL MINING SITE

GARDEN GULLY ROAD AND HARD HILL ROAD ARMSTRONG AND GARDEN GULLY ROAD GREAT WESTERN, ARARAT RURAL CITY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

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The first gold was found at Hard Hill in January 1856 and it continued to be the site of alluvial mining until the 1870s. The area includes an almost intact example of an earthen water race…

NUMBER ONE LEAD GOLD MINING PRECINCT

LEVERS LANE PERCYDALE, PYRENEES SHIRE

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The Number One Lead Gold Mining Precinct is an excellent and unusual example of shallow sinkings for alluvial gold. The site consists of the relics of mines in open country fronting Number…

SAILORS GULLY GOLD MINING PRECINCT

PORCUPINE RIDGE ROAD VAUGHAN AND GLENLUCE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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The Sailors Gully Gold Mining Precinct is a good characteristic example of shallow sinkings for alluvial and quartz gold. The site consists of the relics of mines and campsites including the…

RAGGEDY LEAD GOLD MINING PRECINCT

FARNSWORTH TRACK WARRENMANG, PYRENEES SHIRE

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The Raggedy Lead Gold Mining Precinct is an excellent and unusual example of shallow sinkings for alluvial gold. The site consists of the relics of mines and campsites including the remnants…

WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT

246 MONUMENT ROAD MOLIAGUL, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

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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…

PHILLIPS GULLY GOLD MINING PRECINCT

HARTLANDS ROAD HUNTLY NORTH, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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The Phillips Gully Gold Mining Precinct is a good characteristic example of shallow sinkings for alluvial gold. The site consists of the relics of mines and campsites including the remnants…

SAWPIT GULLY GOLD PUDDLING SITE

MUD HUT TRACK HEATHCOTE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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The Sawpit Gully Gold Puddling Site consists of the remnants of two puddling machines complete with dumps of washed gravels, and patches of ground surfacing and shallow sinkings. These…

BLOWHOLES GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL

BLOWHOLE TRACK HEPBURN AND DRY DIGGINGS TRACK BASALT, HEPBURN SHIRE

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The Blowholes Gold Diversion Tunnel is a creek diversion which was probably built in the early 1860s when Jim Crow Creek was being extensively worked by European and Chinese miners. The…

POUND BEND GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL

POUND BEND ROAD WARRANDYTE AND KANGAROO GROUND-WARRANDYTE ROAD NORTH WARRANDYTE, MANNINGHAM CITY, NILLUMBIK SHIRE

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The Pound Bend Gold Diversion Tunnel is a diversion which was excavated in 1870 by the Evelyn Tunnelling and Mining Company. The tunnel was used to divert the waters of the Yarra River…

DELEGATE RIVER GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL

TUNNEL RIDGE TRACK DELEGATE RIVER AND BENDOC, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

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The Delegate River Gold Diversion Tunnel is a diversion which was excavated in 1889 by the Delegate River Gold Sluicing Company. The tunnel was used to divert the waters of the Delegate…

HOUGHTONS FLAT GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL

SLAUGHTER WALKING TRACK DEPTFORD, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

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The Houghton's Flat Gold Diversion Tunnel is a diversion which was probably excavated in 1873 by the Nicholson River Sluicing Company. The tunnel was used to divert the waters of the…

HARRISONS CUT GOLD DIVERSION SITE

UPPER DARGO ROAD DARGO, WELLINGTON SHIRE

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The Harrisons Cut Gold Diversion Site is a 50 metre diversion which was probably excavated in the early 1880s. The name Harrison has strong connections with the Crooked River-Dargo goldfield…

SURFACE HILL HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING PIT

SURFACE HILL ROAD SMYTHESDALE, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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The Surface Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Pit consists of a large excavation containing a network of pebble dumps, tail races and drainage adits. Water for sluicing would have been delivered…

GROWLERS GOLD BUCKET DREDGE SITE

WILLIAMS ROAD WANDILIGONG, ALPINE SHIRE

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The Growlers Creek Gold Bucket Dredge Site consists of a largely buried timber pontoon. The skeletal remains of the pontoon is very overgrown by trees, ferns and blackberries, but appears to…

DUKE AND TIMOR DEEP LEAD GOLD MINE

GRAND DUKE HISTORIC RESERVE, TIMOR-DUNOLLY ROAD TIMOR, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

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One of the State's richest deep alluvial gold leads was discovered running through Timor. Mining on this lead was dominated by the Duke and Timor Gold Mining Company (later known as Duchess…

PINK CLIFFS HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE

PINK CLIFFS ROAD HEATHCOTE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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Hydraulic sluicing operations on the site were carried out under the direction of James Hedley from the late 1870s through the 1880s. Hedley's gold mining operations were finally banned…

YACKANDANDAH CREEK GOLD HYDRAULIC SLUICING WORKS

YACKANDANDAH TRACK AND COHNS TRACK STANLEY, INDIGO SHIRE

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The Yackandandah Creek Gold Hydraulic Sluicing Works is the most intact site of its type in Victoria. The substantial remains, including water race, delivery pipelines, jet elevator, sluice…

BAXTER LEAD ALLUVIAL GOLD MINING PRECINCT

BAXTER TRACK WATERLOO, PYRENEES SHIRE

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The Baxter Lead Alluvial Gold Mining precinct contains the remnants of five small-scale deep lead mines. Working at the head or commencement of Baxter Gully, the deep lead miners were working…

OLD LEAD DIGGINGS

OLD LEAD ROAD AND OLD LEAD ROAD DUNOLLY, LODDON SHIRE, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

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The Old Lead Diggings, Dunolly includes a dense aggregation of several thousand remnant mining shafts that resulted from the search for nuggety gold. The place contains other archaeological…

BUCKLAND RIVER CROSSING

BUCKLAND VALLEY ROAD BUCKLAND, ALPINE SHIRE

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The Buckland River Crossing being the river and surrounding landscape where the Buckland Valley Riot of 1857 culminated. How is it significant? The Buckland River Crossing is of historical…

HARD HILL WORKINGS

GARDEN GULLY ROAD ARMSTRONG, ARARAT RURAL CITY

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HARD HILL 4

GARDEN GULLY ROAD ARMSTRONG, ARARAT RURAL CITY

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MAFEKING ALLUVIAL WORKINGS

GRAMPIANS ROAD MAFEKING, ARARAT RURAL CITY

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GREAT WESTERN LEAD

WATTLE GULLY ROAD GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

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DEEP LEAD HISTORIC RESERVE

WESTERN HIGHWAY DEEP LEAD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

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