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…

GLENFINE HOMESTEAD PRECINCT

150 GLENFINE ROAD WERNETH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

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Glenfine homestead is a substantial, Gothically styled two-storey rendered bluestone residence. Glenfine was designed in 1872 by the architect HR Caselli for pastoralist, William Thomas…

RED HILL HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE

BREAKNECK HILL TRACK IRISHTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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The Red Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site consists of a large sluicing pit containing a network of pebble dumps and tail races. The slopes of the hill below the pit have been extensively…

EUREKA REEF GOLD MINING PRECINCT

CASTLEMAINE HISTORIC RESERVE CHEWTON AND CAMPBELLS CREEK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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The Eureka Reef Gold Mines consists of a range of mining sites documenting quartz and alluvial gold mining operations carried on from the mid 1850s to 1950s. The focal point of the precinct…

SPRING GULLY QUARTZ GOLD MINES

VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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The Spring Gully Quartz Gold Mines consists of six main quartz mines. All the mines have undisturbed mullock heaps, and four have mining machinery foundations. The main mine (the parent…

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…

SPRING GULLY GOLD PUDDLING SITE

SPRING GULLY FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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The Spring Gully Gold Puddling Site consists of the remnants of one puddling machine complete with dumps of washed gravels, water dam and two house sites. The site comprise a good…

JIM CROW CREEK GOLD MINING DIVERSION SLUICE

CHARLIES ROAD ELEVATED PLAINS AND SHEPHERDS FLAT, HEPBURN SHIRE

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The Jim Crow Creek Gold Mining Diversion Sluice consists of a 400 metre long stone embankment which was probably built in the early 1860s when Jim Crow Creek was being extensively worked by…

MALDON STATE BATTERY

ADAIR STREET EAST MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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The Maldon State Battery consists of the remains of the former State Battery including buildings and machinery, the Alliance shaft and associated mining machinery foundations, several large…

ROYAL STANDARD GOLD BATTERY SITE

ROYAL STANDARD SPUR TRACK WOODS POINT, MANSFIELD SHIRE

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The Royal Standard Gold Battery Site consists of the remains of three 5-head stamp batteries, waterwheel, two Cornish boilers, metal chimney flue, and equipment for working an inclined…

NEW NUGGETTY GULLY ALLUVIAL GOLD WORKINGS

WERONA-YANDOIT ROAD FRANKLINFORD, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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The New Nuggetty Gully Alluvial Gold Workings is an excellent characteristic example of shallow mining for alluvial gold. The site has remnants of three different forms of mining - shaft…

ROSE THISTLE AND SHAMROCK QUARRY GOLD MINING PRECINCT

CEMETERY LANE HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE

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The Rose Thistle & Shamrock mine was the largest recorded gold-producer and had the deepest workings in the Upper Ovens gold field. The mine was worked almost constantly from 1860 until…

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…

RED ROBIN GOLD MINE AND BATTERY

WEST KIEWA LOGGING TRACK AND MACHINERY SPUR TRACK HOTHAM HEIGHTS, ALPINE SHIRE

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Throughout the 1930s, in the most elevated part of the Australian Alps the country lying between Mt Hotham and Mt Feathertop known as the Kiewa fall a lone miner named William Spargo…

MONSTER MEETING SITE

GOLDEN POINT ROAD GOLDEN POINT, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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History Summary In the first week of July 1851, Victoria separated from New South Wales and became a colony in its own right. In the same week, gold was discovered in the new colony.…