MAGENTA QUARTZ MINE

145 MAGENTA ROAD CHILTERN, INDIGO SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

Magenta Quartz Mine began as an open cut mine in 1860 on the Magenta gold fields, 1.6km northeast of Chiltern in north eastern Victoria. Following the discovery of gold in Victoria (1851),…

RUINS OF DUKE OF CORNWALL MINE

2 VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

Built in 1865 the only alteration in the appearance of the structure has been through weathering and the lack of maintenance over a long period of time. It is considered that local mudstone,…

GLENFINE HOMESTEAD PRECINCT

150 GLENFINE ROAD WERNETH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

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…

WATTLE GULLY GOLD MINE

FRYERS ROAD CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

Wattle Gully Mine holds a pivotal position in the history of the State's quartz mining industry. The rich strike at Wattle Gully mine in 1937 helped revive the State's gold mining industry…

MAGPIE CREEK GOLD MINING DIVERSION SLUICE

KIBELL LANE WOORAGEE, INDIGO SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Magpie Creek Gold Mining Diversion Sluice consists of a 200 metre long stone embankment which was probably built in the mid 1860s when the site was extensively reworked by Chinese…

KIRBY FLAT GOLD MINING DIVERSION SLUICE

BELLS FLAT ROAD YACKANDANDAH, INDIGO SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Kirby Flat Gold Mining Diversion Sluice consists of a 30 metre long stone embankment, pebble dumps and quarried bank. The sluice was probably built in the mid to late nineteenth century…

WALLABY MINE GOLD BATTERY SITE

WALLABY MINE TRACK STANLEY, INDIGO SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Wallaby Mine Gold Battery Site consists of the remains of a 12-head stamping battery, horizontal steam engine, stone boiler setting, and various buried and partly buried piece of…

YACKANDANDAH CREEK HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING PIT

NUMBER ONE LINK ROAD STANLEY, INDIGO SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Yackandandah Creek Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Pit consists of an excavation about 200 metres by 100 metres containing a network of pebble dumps, tail races and drainage adits. Water for…

DUKE AND TIMOR DEEP LEAD GOLD MINE

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

Victorian Heritage Register

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…

ROSE THISTLE AND SHAMROCK QUARRY GOLD MINING PRECINCT

CEMETERY LANE HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

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

Victorian Heritage Register

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

Victorian Heritage Register

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…

HERONS REEF HISTORIC GOLD DIGGINGS

VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Herons Reef Historic Gold Diggings takes in a tangle of gullies at the head of Golden Gully and possesses a comprehensive range of gold mining relics, habitation sites and blacksmith…

VICTORY MINE & KAFFIR HILL RESERVE

KAFFIR HILL ROAD, FOSTER, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE

South Gippsland Shire

The Former Victory Mine and Kaffir Hill Reserve, at the end of Kaffir Hill Road, Foster, where gold was discovered c.1870, is significant. The gold quartz reef mining site was the site of…

TURTON'S CREEK GOLDFIELD

TURTON'S CREEK ROAD, TURTONS CREEK, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE

South Gippsland Shire

The Turton’s Creek Goldfield, discovered by Mr. Oldham and Mr. Furness, along Turton’s Creek Road, Turton’s Creek, is significant. Theses rich alluvial goldfields were established on…

Frederick the Great Historic Area and Frederick the Great Mine and Cyanide Works

624 Three Chain Road, SEBASTIAN VIC 3556 - Property No 207130

Greater Bendigo City

(Frederick the Great Mine) The Frederick the Great mine site is of considerable cultural significance for Victoria, given the age of the artefacts, the context in which they are situated and…

Phillips Gully Gold Mining Precinct

CA 10 Hartlands Road, HUNTLY NORTH VIC 3551 - Property No 209570

Greater Bendigo City

Myer's Flat Alluvial Workings

52 Williams Road and 54 Williams Road MYERS FLAT, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Greater Bendigo City

Myer's Flat was one of the earliest shallow alluvial workings on Bendigo beyond Bendigo Creek itself and an early administrative centre (Criterion A). The site, just downstream from the…

Wilson's Hills Mines & Cyanide Works

CA 9B Wilson's Hill Road and CA 2C Bendigo-St Arnaud Road WILSONS HILL, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Greater Bendigo City

The site is associated with the discovery of gold in the Marong area in 1867 and also with the small-scale re-treatment oftailings by the cyanide process, representing the last phase of…

Chinese Diggings Historic Reserve and White Hills Geological Reserve

CA 240L Heywood Street, EAST BENDIGO VIC 3550 - Property No 235244

Greater Bendigo City

Historic, Social and Scientific Significance on a Regional level (H7724-0247) Not specifically assessed. Considered as 'best remaining examples of early Chinese and European mine shafts in…

Old Tom Reef Mine, Alluvial Workings and Cyanide Works and Unfortunate Bolle's Reef Mine

CA 4 Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road, WOODVALE VIC 3556 - Property No 198895

Greater Bendigo City

(Old Tom Reef Mine and Alluvial Workings) The site has considerable potential to educate and illustrate important aspects of mining on Bendigo because it displays a comprehensive sequence of…

Sandfly Gully Historic Area - Sandfly Reef Mine and Alluvial Workings and Shamrock Reef Mine and Cyanide Works

119 Millers Flat Road, WHIPSTICK VIC 3556 - Property No 201340

Greater Bendigo City

(Sandfly Reef Mine and Alluvial Workings) The site is representative of relatively undisturbed late 19th century quartz workings (criterion D). (Shamrock Reef Mine and Cyanide Works) The site…

Christoff Reef Mines

CA 14 Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road, WHIPSTICK VIC 3556 - Property No 209575

Greater Bendigo City

The site is representative of some relatively undisturbed shallow-level lowproduction quartz workings chiefly from the period 1886-1889 (criterion D) and was one of a number of sites in the…

Elliott's Reef Mine

CA 4 Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road, WOODVALE VIC 3556 - Property No 198895

Greater Bendigo City

The site is representative of small-scale mining in the Whipstick area undertaken with assistance from the prospecting vote during the 1880s and contains relatively undisturbed early quartz…

Wallace Reef Mine, Dam and Alluvial Workings

CA 4 Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road, WOODVALE VIC 3556 - Property No 198895

Greater Bendigo City

The site contains the earliest recorded quartz workings in the Whipstick area and the site of the first battery (criterion A). The site also contains a range of mining activities from open…