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CENTRAL COOKMAN QUARTZ GOLD MINE
PARKINS REEF ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1690The 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 mined put the…
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BERRY CONSOLS EXTENDED DEEP LEAD GOLD MINE
865 CRESWICK-LAWRENCE ROAD LAWRENCE, HEPBURN SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1741The State's richest deep alluvial gold lead system, known as the Berry Lead System, runs north from Creswick, slightly to the west of Smeaton. Mining of the lead system took place from the…
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BERRY NO.1 DEEP LEAD GOLD MINE
1541 DAYLESFORD-CLUNES ROAD LAWRENCE, HEPBURN SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1740The State's richest deep alluvial gold lead system, known as the Berry Lead System, run north from Creswick, slightly to the west of Smeaton. Mining of lead system took place from early…
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YACKANDANDAH CREEK GOLD HYDRAULIC SLUICING WORKS
YACKANDANDAH TRACK AND COHNS TRACK STANLEY, INDIGO SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1755The Yackandandah Creek Gold Hydraulic Sluicing Works is the most intact site of its type in Victoria. The substantial remains, including water race, delivery pipelines, jet elevator, sluice…
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DREDGE HOLE LANE AND FEATHERTOP TRACK HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1756The Tronoh bucket dredge was the biggest in the southern hemisphere: it measured 167 metres long, weighed 4,813 tonnes, and could dredge to a depth of approximately 41 metres. The dredge was…
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BLIND CREEK OCHRE MINE & PROCESSING SITE
OFF KINGOWER-ARNOLD ROAD KINGOWER, LODDON SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1757The site has a number of features which, according to local information, belong to a turn-of-the-century commercial operation to mine and process ochre. No primary historical information has…
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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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MAXWELL CONSOLIDATED QUARTZ GOLD MINE
DOCTORS GULLY ROAD HEPBURN SPRINGS, HEPBURN SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1760During 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…
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YOUNG AUSTRALIAN BATTERY AND GOLD CYANIDING WORKS
GLENDART TRACK DARTMOUTH, TOWONG SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1761The Young Australian mine was founded in 1883 and despite being heralded as a promising venture it only operated for a few years. The existing remains at the mine site - a crushing battery…
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JUBILEE COMPANY QUARTZ GOLD MINE
JUBILEE ROAD STAFFORDSHIRE REEF, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1762Jubilee Company Quartz Gold Mine has one of the most comprehensive range of quartz mining foundations in the State. The brick and concrete foundations cover pumping, winding and crushing…
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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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WONTHAGGI STATE COAL MINE NORTHERN PRECINCT (19 & 20 SHAFTS)
BASS HIGHWAY DALYSTON, BASS COAST SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1777At the beginning of the twentieth century black coal powered the State's railway system. There was also an insatiable demand for black coal from Melbourne's engineering works, agricultural…
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WONTHAGGI STATE COAL MINE CENTRAL PRECINCT
GRAHAM STREET WONTHAGGI, BASS COAST SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1778At 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…
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RED ROBIN GOLD MINE AND BATTERY
WEST KIEWA LOGGING TRACK AND MACHINERY SPUR TRACK HOTHAM HEIGHTS, ALPINE SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1881Throughout the 1930s, in the most elevated part of the Australian Alps the country lying between Mt Hotham and Mt Feathertop known as the Kiewa fall a lone miner named William Spargo…
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501-525 EUREKA STREET EUREKA, BALLARAT CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1874The Eureka rebellion was a brief demonstration of armed conflict against injustice, its events have a special association with the Australian community and have been bestowed with tremendous…
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LEICHARDT GOLD CRUSHING BATTERY
ABBOT CREEK TRACK WOODS POINT, MANSFIELD SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1914A party of prospectors found a gold bearing reef near the junction of Wye's and Stander's creeks in 1886. A year later the party was building a large wooden-spoked water wheel and carting to…
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OFF BAYSIDE DRIVE WALKERVILLE SOUTH, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2043The Walkerville Lime Kilns and the associated remnant site features including the jetty, tramway, quarry, cemetery and archaeological remains of the township are situated on the western…
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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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CASTLEMAINE DIGGINGS NATIONAL HERITAGE PARK
CASTLEMAINE AND CHEWTON AND BARKERS CREEK AND CAMPBELLS CREEK AND FRYERSTOWN AND IRISHTOWN AND VAUGHAN AND GLENLYON AND TARILTA AND GLENLUCE AND PORCUPINE RIDGE AND GOLDEN POINT AND GUILDFORD AND MOONLIGHT FLAT AND FARADAY AND YAPEEN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIR
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2047The Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park envelopes a goldfield which was the catalyst for the Victorian gold rush of the early 1850s. In that tumultuous decade Victorian gold…
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WILSONS PROMONTORY, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1729Refuge Cove, located on the eastern side of Wilsons Promontory, south of Sealers Cove, was discovered by Captain Thomas Wishart in 1837 and originally named Lady Bay. Bay whaling operated at…
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WONTHAGGI STATE COAL MINE (EASTERN PRECINCT)
STATE COAL MINE ACCESS ROAD WONTHAGGI, BASS COAST SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0198The Wonthaggi State Coal Mine Eastern Area operated from 1919 to 1947. The Historic Reserve site includes the underground mine areas of the original No.1 bench, with three tunnels and…
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GREAT ALPINE ROAD HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2356The Sambas Gold Mine including abandoned and working mining infrastructure and archaeological remains. Above ground infrastructure includes a battery shed and gold retrieval plant, and a…
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OLD LEAD ROAD AND OLD LEAD ROAD DUNOLLY, LODDON SHIRE, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2402The Old Lead Diggings, Dunolly includes a dense aggregation of several thousand remnant mining shafts that resulted from the search for nuggety gold. The place contains other archaeological…
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GABO ISLAND, Unincorporated
Vic. War Heritage Inventory
VHR H1843The original decision to construct a lighthouse on Gabo Island flowed from discussions between Governors Gipps of New South Wales and Franklin of Van Diemen?s Land in 1841 concerning the…