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PINK CLIFFS HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE
PINK CLIFFS ROAD HEATHCOTE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1352Hydraulic sluicing operations on the site were carried out under the direction of James Hedley from the late 1870s through the 1880s. Hedley's gold mining operations were finally banned…
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VICTORIA HILL QUARTZ GOLD MINES
40-56 MARONG ROAD IRONBARK, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1355The story of quartz mining on Victoria Hill lies at the heart of Bendigo's historical status as the world's richest and deepest reefing field. Gold was discovered on Victoria Hill in 1854,…
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SOUTH GERMAN ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1357The Maldon Quartz Reefing Field, although relatively small compared to others in the State, was extraordinary rich in gold. The hardness and heavy mineralisation of the rock containing the…
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MOUNT TARRENGOWER TUNNELLING COMPANY GOLD MINE
ANZAC HILL ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1358The Maldon quartz reefing field, although relatively small compared to others in the State, was extraordinary rich in gold. The hardness and heavy mineralisation of the rock mined put the…
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GOLCONDA - GLASGOW REEF GOLD MINES
133 MACDOUGALL ROAD GOLDEN GULLY, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1359Bendigo was Victoria's premier quartz reefing field and, during the late nineteenth century, was a world leader. The Golconda-Glasgow Reef Gold Mines contains a range of mining foundations…
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SPARROWHAWK ROAD AND DERWENT GULLY ROAD AND ARRO AVENUE MAIDEN GULLY, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1360Spargos Pyrites Gold Works contains of the remnants of six circular brick bases, several concrete floors, a culvert and a small mound of calcined sand. The treatment of auriferous pyritic…
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MAIN STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1361The Maldon quartz reefing field, although relatively small compared to others in the State, was extraordinarily rich in gold. The hardness and heavy mineralisation of the rock containing the…
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NEW MOON QUARTZ GOLD MINE SITES
BEELZEBUB GULLY ROAD SAILORS GULLY, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1366The New Moon Quartz Gold Mining Sites consists of two large mines - South New Moon and New Moon - both containing an array of mining machinery foundations. The mines, after very indifferent…
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FOREST DRIVE HEATHCOTE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1402The Act to Regulate the Importation, Carriage and Custody of Gunpowder was passed in 1857 in a period when increasing deep mining for gold engendered a requirement for safe storage of large…
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35 HARGRAVES STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1404Twenty-two gold wardens offices were built to service the administration of the 1855 and 1858 Gold Acts. The earlier offices were small, often prefabricated timber buildings of one or two…
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GREVILLE STREET VAUGHAN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1408Primary historical records on Vaughan Chinese Cemetery are scant. Its origins lie in the great Mount Alexander alluvial goldrush of 1852-54. The cemetery is situated on a small rocky hill…
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CHAPEL STREET GOLDEN POINT, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1410Primary historical records for Deadmans Gully Cemetery are scant. Its origins lie in the great Mount Alexander alluvial goldrush of 1851-54. Like other small cemeteries linked to this rush,…
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SPECIMEN GULLY FLAGSTONE QUARRY
162 SPECIMEN GULLY ROAD BARKERS CREEK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1411The quarrying of stone, gravel and sand for building and construction purposes was widely carried out on all Victorian goldfields. Some localities become notable for a particular material,…
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MOUNT STREET CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1412Primary historical records on the cemetery in Cemetery Reef Gully are scant. Its origins lie with the great Mount Alexander alluvial goldrush of 1851-54. Like the other small cemeteries…
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FRYERSTOWN METHODIST CHURCH HALL
9-11 HERON STREET FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1423The Fryerstown Methodist Church Hall is a prefabricated timber building of a type which was used for Courthouses and Gold Warden's offices in the goldfields in the mid to late 1850s. The…
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85 HIGH STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1460The Avoca Court House is a small, single-storey brick structure built in 1858-59 in response to rapid and substantial population growth generated by the rush for alluvial gold in Avoca in…
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FORD STREET WILLIAMS STREET HIGH STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1464Gold was discovered at Beechworth in 1852 and the township of Beechworth was proclaimed on 1 July 1853. On 23 August 1856 the Municipal District of Beechworth was proclaimed and the first…
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NAPIER STREET AND CAMP STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1548The Powder Magazine, Avoca, built in 1860, is part of a larger justice precinct designed by the Public Works Department and includes the court house (1859), police residence (1859) and…
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HEATHERLIE (MT DIFFICULT) QUARRY
GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK, GRAMPIANS ROAD, BELLFIELD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1556In 1861 or 1862, Francis Walkins, stonemason of Stawell discovered an outcrop of freestone in the Mount Difficult range while on a shooting trip and realised that the stone was extremely…
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1 COLLES ROAD MOONLIGHT FLAT, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1675The Cemetery's origins are linked to the Mount Alexander alluvial gold rush of 1851-54. The first interment took place in 1852 and the cemetery was used until 1857. In the intervening years,…
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WALLACES LEAD GOLD PUDDLING PRECINCT
MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD CORNISHTOWN, INDIGO SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1746The Wallaces Lead Gold Puddling Precinct consists of the remnants of at least 12 puddling machines complete with dumps of washed gravels and small ponds. The precinct is a good…
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ROSE THISTLE AND SHAMROCK QUARRY GOLD MINING PRECINCT
CEMETERY LANE HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1758The 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…
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LAL LAL IRON MINE AND SMELTING WORKS
IRON MINE ROAD LAL LAL, MOORABOOL SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1759Victoria's only attempt at mining and smelting iron ore took place at Lal Lal in the latter stages of the nineteenth century. In the mid 1870s, the Lal Lal Iron Company installed mining…
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BAXTER LEAD ALLUVIAL GOLD MINING PRECINCT
BAXTER TRACK WATERLOO, PYRENEES SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1763The 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…
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DUKE AND TIMOR DEEP LEAD GOLD MINE
GRAND DUKE HISTORIC RESERVE, TIMOR-DUNOLLY ROAD TIMOR, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1764One 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…