WATER WHEEL AND MINE MACHINERY

WEONE MINE, WELLS BOUNDARY TRACK MURMUNGEE, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

Situated in a low forested glade, this ramshackle collection of structures is probably unique in Victoria. Although erected in fairly recent times, it demonstrates superbly the small gold…

MONARCH GOLD BATTERY SITE

GREAT ALPINE ROAD HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Monarch Gold Battery Site consists of the remains of one 5-head stamp battery (in a 10-head iron frame), portable steam engine, shaking table, various buried and partly buried piece of…

LLOYDS WHIP GOLD MINING SITE

SUNRAYSIA HIGHWAY STUART MILL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

Lloyds Whip Gold Mining Site consists of a timber tripod structure (known as a whip pole) a mine shaft and associated mullock dump. The structure dates from the 1930s and is typical of…

GLENGARRY GOLD BATTERY AND CHLORINATION WORKS

CORRYONG-BENAMBRA ROAD CORRYONG, TOWONG SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Glengarry Gold Battery and Chlorination Works consists of the remains of a 5-head timber framed battery and associated oil engine, wilfley table and water tank. Connected to the battery…

FOREST CREEK TOURIST GOLD MINE

DUKE STREET CASTLEMAINE AND HITCHCOCK STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Forest Creek Tourist Gold Mine possesses a complete and functional hydraulic sluicing plant. The machinery, including a 200hp gas engine and gas-producing plant was installed in 1936. The…

NORTH DEBORAH QUARTZ GOLD MINE

4 EVE STREET GOLDEN SQUARE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

The North Deborah Quartz Gold Mine consists of a steel poppet head, sets of concrete engine beds, an intact brick chimney stack, and remnants of flues and boiler setting. These are relics of…

MOUNT TARRENGOWER LOOK-OUT TOWER

MOUNT TARRENGOWER ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

In May 1923 a public meeting was convened by the Maldon Shire to investigate ways to develop the natural resources of the district in order to once more bring the town into prominence as an…

MAXWELL CONSOLIDATED QUARTZ GOLD MINE

DOCTORS GULLY ROAD HEPBURN SPRINGS, HEPBURN SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

During the Depression of the early 1930s, the price of gold rose from £4 to £8 an ounce. The conditions of the times and the massive price rise caused a mining revival throughout…

WONTHAGGI STATE COAL MINE CENTRAL PRECINCT

GRAHAM STREET WONTHAGGI, BASS COAST SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

At the beginning of the twentieth century black coal from New South Wales powered Victoria’s railway system, gasworks and manufacturing industries. In 1909 a prolonged strike on the New…

CENTRAL DEBORAH GOLD MINE

76 VIOLET STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

 Bendigo is Victoria's premier quartz mining centre having produced over 22 million ounces of gold between 1851 and 1954. This gold was won through the exploits of over 5,500 gold…