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150 GLENFINE ROAD WERNETH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
VHR H1206Glenfine homestead is a substantial, Gothically styled two-storey rendered bluestone residence. Glenfine was designed in 1872 by the architect HR Caselli for pastoralist, William Thomas…
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MAGPIE CREEK GOLD MINING DIVERSION SLUICE
KIBELL LANE WOORAGEE, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H1253The Magpie Creek Gold Mining Diversion Sluice consists of a 200 metre long stone embankment which was probably built in the mid 1860s when the site was extensively reworked by Chinese…
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KIRBY FLAT GOLD MINING DIVERSION SLUICE
BELLS FLAT ROAD YACKANDANDAH, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H1256The Kirby Flat Gold Mining Diversion Sluice consists of a 30 metre long stone embankment, pebble dumps and quarried bank. The sluice was probably built in the mid to late nineteenth century…
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WALLABY MINE GOLD BATTERY SITE
WALLABY MINE TRACK STANLEY, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H1272The Wallaby Mine Gold Battery Site consists of the remains of a 12-head stamping battery, horizontal steam engine, stone boiler setting, and various buried and partly buried piece of…
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YACKANDANDAH CREEK GORGE GOLD MINING DIVERSION SLUICE
BELLS FLAT ROAD YACKANDANDAH, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H1254The Yackandandah Creek Gorge Gold Mining Diversion Sluice consists of a 65 metre long stone diversion sluice and associated pebble dumps, and a 200 metre long tail race. The embankment was…
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YACKANDANDAH CREEK HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING PIT
NUMBER ONE LINK ROAD STANLEY, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H1227The Yackandandah Creek Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Pit consists of an excavation about 200 metres by 100 metres containing a network of pebble dumps, tail races and drainage adits. Water for…
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UPPER WEST BRANCH OF OVENS RIVER SELWYN, ALPINE SHIRE
VHR H1301The Gun Reef Gold Battery Sites contain the remnants from three mining operations: the Big Gun, Big Gun Extended and the Little Gun. The Big Gun battery is very intact and contains 5-head of…
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DUKE AND TIMOR DEEP LEAD GOLD MINE
GRAND DUKE HISTORIC RESERVE, TIMOR-DUNOLLY ROAD TIMOR, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
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…
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DEBORAH COMPANY QUARTZ GOLD MINE
9-11 ABEL STREET GOLDEN SQUARE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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…
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GAY ROAD ERRINUNDRA, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1429The Pioneer Battery Site consists of the remains of one 5-head stamping battery, hut site, cyanide works and mine workings. The Pioneer lease on the Bonang River was noted as early as 1898…
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CENTRAL COOKMAN QUARTZ GOLD MINE
PARKINS REEF ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
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
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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YACKANDANDAH CREEK GOLD HYDRAULIC SLUICING WORKS
YACKANDANDAH TRACK AND COHNS TRACK STANLEY, INDIGO SHIRE
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
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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ROSE THISTLE AND SHAMROCK QUARRY GOLD MINING PRECINCT
CEMETERY LANE HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE
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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MAXWELL CONSOLIDATED QUARTZ GOLD MINE
DOCTORS GULLY ROAD HEPBURN SPRINGS, HEPBURN SHIRE
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
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
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
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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RED ROBIN GOLD MINE AND BATTERY
WEST KIEWA LOGGING TRACK AND MACHINERY SPUR TRACK HOTHAM HEIGHTS, ALPINE SHIRE
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
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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HERONS REEF HISTORIC GOLD DIGGINGS
VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
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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GREAT ALPINE ROAD HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE
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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EUREKA STREET and RODIER STREET and STAWELL STREET SOUTH and CHARLESWORTH STREET EUREKA, Ballarat City
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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