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SHINING STAR GOLD MINING COMPANY
OLD WARBURTON ROAD WARBURTON, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
SHINING STAR GOLD MINING COMPANY
OLD WARBURTON ROAD WARBURTON, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Shining Star Gold Mining Company site is of historical significance in relation to gold mining activities in the Yarra Ranges in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. The sites features are currently known to include mining audits, a tramway, a water wheel, water race and associated mullock heap and tailings.
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SHINING STAR GOLD MINING COMPANY - History
The 'Shining Star Gold Mining Company’ is located on the Old Warburton Road along Yankee Jim’s Creek, the site was first mined by Gideon Scott Lang who obtained a lease in 1873. This mining licence was suspended in 1884, three years after Lang’s death. The Yarra Yarra Hydraulic sluicing company occupied the site for an unknown period, then in 1892 Louis Edouard Duclos applied for the leasehold and it became the ‘Shining Star Gold Mining Company’ in 1894. In 1902 the Mining property, leases, machinery and plan were auctioned for sale.
Components of the place will include a north open entrance with associated mullock heap and tunnels, other collapsed openings. To gully in the east a tramway with 10 head battery, waterwheel and water race. There are two large shafts at the top of the hill and tailings are also described.
The Yarra Yarra Hydraulic sluicing company is on HO342 (Shire of Yarra Ranges). It is noted to be of high local historical significance and archaeological significance. The site card was submitted by a local enthusiast and the spatial data submitted with the application is unclear and will need to be clarified. I have been unable to find any historical evidence relating to the site.
The Shining Star Gold Mining Company site is of historical significance in relation to gold mining activities in the Yarra Ranges in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. The sites features are currently known to include mining audits, a tramway, a water wheel, water race and associated mullock heap and tailings.
Heritage Inventory Description
SHINING STAR GOLD MINING COMPANY - Heritage Inventory Description
The Shining Star Gold Mining Company site is of historical significance in relation to gold mining activities in the Yarra Ranges in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. There are two components to the site, consisting of lower workings including an adit, an open cut/quarry, a waterwheel battery site and an inclined tramway, and upper workings comprised of numerous adits and shafts on the crown of the hill.
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