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RUINS OF DUKE OF CORNWALL MINE
2 VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0385Built 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,…
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37, 39A AND 45 FARNSWORTH STREET AND 3 BROWN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0591A single-storey picturesque Elizabethan revival style house built in two stages between 1866 and 1869 by William Downe, architect and Castlemaine town Surveyor till 1872 on land he acquired…
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RED HILL HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE
BREAKNECK HILL TRACK IRISHTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1230The Red Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site consists of a large sluicing pit containing a network of pebble dumps and tail races. The slopes of the hill below the pit have been extensively…
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EUREKA REEF GOLD MINING PRECINCT
CASTLEMAINE HISTORIC RESERVE CHEWTON AND CAMPBELLS CREEK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1233The Eureka Reef Gold Mines consists of a range of mining sites documenting quartz and alluvial gold mining operations carried on from the mid 1850s to 1950s. The focal point of the precinct…
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SPRING GULLY QUARTZ GOLD MINES
VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1234The Spring Gully Quartz Gold Mines consists of six main quartz mines. All the mines have undisturbed mullock heaps, and four have mining machinery foundations. The main mine (the parent…
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SPECIMEN GULLY QUARTZ MINING ASSOCIATION GOLD MINE
SPECIMEN GULLY ROAD BARKERS CREEK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1235The Specimen Gully Quartz Mining Association Gold Mine consists of stone foundations of a chimney stack and flue, and an engine house. Other surviving mine works include a haulage adit, open…
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SOUTH PARKINS REEF ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1236The North British Gold Mine has the most comprehensive range of quartz mining foundations in the State. The stone, brick and concrete foundations cover pumping, winding and crushing…
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SAILORS GULLY GOLD MINING PRECINCT
PORCUPINE RIDGE ROAD VAUGHAN AND GLENLUCE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1239The Sailors Gully Gold Mining Precinct is a good characteristic example of shallow sinkings for alluvial and quartz gold. The site consists of the relics of mines and campsites including the…
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SPRING GULLY GOLD PUDDLING SITE
SPRING GULLY FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1245The Spring Gully Gold Puddling Site consists of the remnants of one puddling machine complete with dumps of washed gravels, water dam and two house sites. The site comprise a good…
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COBBLERS GULLY GOLD PUDDLING SITE
JACOBS TRACK CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1249The Cobblers Gully Gold Puddling Site consists of the remnants of one puddling machine complete with an adjoining water dam. The site is located at the head of the gully. The gully's middle…
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ADAIR STREET EAST MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1264The Maldon State Battery consists of the remains of the former State Battery including buildings and machinery, the Alliance shaft and associated mining machinery foundations, several large…
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COBBLERS GULLY QUARTZ ROASTING SITE
CASTLEMAINE HISTORIC RESERVE AND OLD COACH ROAD CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1277The Cobblers Gully Quartz Roasting Site consists of the remains of small quartz roasting kiln. Below the kiln are some largely buried foundations, including a circular feature which may be…
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NEW NUGGETTY GULLY ALLUVIAL GOLD WORKINGS
WERONA-YANDOIT ROAD FRANKLINFORD, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1306The New Nuggetty Gully Alluvial Gold Workings is an excellent characteristic example of shallow mining for alluvial gold. The site has remnants of three different forms of mining - shaft…
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FOREST CREEK TOURIST GOLD MINE
DUKE STREET CASTLEMAINE AND HITCHCOCK STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1322The 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…
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HERONS REEF HISTORIC GOLD DIGGINGS
VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1323The 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…
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VINEYARD ROAD CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1351The Archbold (Chewton) Gold Treatment Works was erected c.1884 by Jeremiah Archbold who operated an assay and metallurgical business specialising in the treatment of gold-bearing ore. The…
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LISLES AND MANTONS GULLIES QUARTZ GOLD MINES
MOUNT TARRENGOWER ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1354The story of quartz mining in Lisles and Mantons gullies revolves around the working of three parallel reefs: Lisles, Mantons, and Braithwaites (or the Mount), all worked extensively by small…
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GARFIELD WATERWHEEL QUARTZ GOLD MINING SITE
NORTH STREET CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1356Quartz 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…
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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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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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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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MOUNT TARRENGOWER LOOK-OUT TOWER
MOUNT TARRENGOWER ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1407In 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…
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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,…