NEW CHUM GOLD BATTERY SITE

DEGREAVES TRACK BENAMBRA, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The New Chum Gold Battery Site consists of a 15ft diameter iron waterwheel and the remains of a 4-head stamping battery. The wheel, which still retains its brass fittings, spokes and buckets…

HOWQUA UNITED GOLD TREATMENT WORKS

HOWQUA HILLS TRACK HOWQUA HILLS, MANSFIELD SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Howqua United Gold Treatment Works consists of the remains of pyritic roasting furnace with an intact brick chimney stack. Near the roasting furnace is a battery site which was powered…

MORNING STAR GOLD BATTERY SITE

MORNING STAR CREEK YANGOURA, WELLINGTON SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Morning Star Gold Battery Site consists of a metal pitchback waterwheel. The waterwheel is a remnant of a ore a crushing battery which was installed during the period 1904-10 and was one…

GARFIELD WATERWHEEL QUARTZ GOLD MINING SITE

NORTH STREET CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

Quartz reefs near the site were being worked as early as 1856. During the mid-1880s the reefs were being mined by the Garfield Company. In 1887, the company relocated their 23-head quartz…

LEICHARDT GOLD CRUSHING BATTERY

ABBOT CREEK TRACK WOODS POINT, MANSFIELD SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

A party of prospectors found a gold bearing reef near the junction of Wye's and Stander's creeks in 1886. A year later the party was building a large wooden-spoked water wheel and carting to…