-
Save Search
You must log in to do that.
-
Share Search
-
Download Search
The download will only include records from the current search page. You can increase the number of records to download by changing the number of 'listings per page' at the bottom of this page. Note that the maximum number of records that can be listed per page is 300. The download may exceed the number of records listed as any 'nested' records that have met the search criteria will also download.
Download file (.xls)
Success
Error
-
Save Search
You must log in to do that.
-
Share Search
-
Download Search
The download will only include records from the current search page. You can increase the number of records to download by changing the number of 'listings per page' at the bottom of this page. Note that the maximum number of records that can be listed per page is 300. The download may exceed the number of records listed as any 'nested' records that have met the search criteria will also download.
Download file (.xls)
-
NEW AUSTRALASIAN NO. 2 DEEP LEAD GOLD MINING SITE AND MEMORIAL
95 AUSTRALASIA DRIVE CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1302The New Australasian No. 2 Deep Lead Gold Mine was the scene of the most tragic accident in the history of Victorian gold mining. At 4:45am, Tuesday 12 December 1882, 29 miners were trapped…
-
GROWLERS GOLD BUCKET DREDGE SITE
WILLIAMS ROAD WANDILIGONG, ALPINE SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1303The Growlers Creek Gold Bucket Dredge Site consists of a largely buried timber pontoon. The skeletal remains of the pontoon is very overgrown by trees, ferns and blackberries, but appears to…
-
MOUNT MERRIMAC GOLD BATTERY SITE
LIGHTNING CREEK MITTA MITTA, TOWONG SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1304The Mount Merrimac Gold Battery Site consists of the remains of a collapsed 10-head stamp battery, and buried and partly buried piece of machinery. The battery's power plant, a Pelton wheel…
-
BREAKNECK GORGE GOLD PUDDLING SITE
CHARLIES ROAD ELEVATED PLAINS, HEPBURN SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1305The Breakneck Gorge Gold Puddling Site is located on the steep northern bank of Spring Creek, immediately below the base of a basalt escarpment. The site consists of the remnants of one…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
NORTH DEBORAH QUARTZ GOLD MINE
4 EVE STREET GOLDEN SQUARE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1353The 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…
Also listed in:
-
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…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
DEBORAH COMPANY QUARTZ GOLD MINE
9-11 ABEL STREET GOLDEN SQUARE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1365The Deborah Company Quartz Gold Mine consists of a steel poppet head, sets of concrete engine beds, concrete foundations of a workshop and a 20-head crushing battery. The Deborah Company's…
Also listed in:
-
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…
-
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…
Also listed in:
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
Also listed in:
-
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,…
-
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,…