HARD HILL MINING SITE

GARDEN GULLY ROAD AND HARD HILL ROAD ARMSTRONG AND GARDEN GULLY ROAD GREAT WESTERN, ARARAT RURAL CITY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The first gold was found at Hard Hill in January 1856 and it continued to be the site of alluvial mining until the 1870s. The area includes an almost intact example of an earthen water race…

NUMBER ONE LEAD GOLD MINING PRECINCT

LEVERS LANE PERCYDALE, PYRENEES SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Number One Lead Gold Mining Precinct is an excellent and unusual example of shallow sinkings for alluvial gold. The site consists of the relics of mines in open country fronting Number…

SAILORS GULLY GOLD MINING PRECINCT

PORCUPINE RIDGE ROAD VAUGHAN AND GLENLUCE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The 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…

RAGGEDY LEAD GOLD MINING PRECINCT

FARNSWORTH TRACK WARRENMANG, PYRENEES SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Raggedy Lead Gold Mining Precinct is an excellent and unusual example of shallow sinkings for alluvial gold. The site consists of the relics of mines and campsites including the remnants…

WELCOME STRANGER GOLD MINING PRECINCT

246 MONUMENT ROAD MOLIAGUL, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Welcome Stranger Gold Mining Precinct is good characteristic example of surface mining for alluvial gold. The site consists of the sites of puddling machines, houses and campsites at the…

PHILLIPS GULLY GOLD MINING PRECINCT

HARTLANDS ROAD HUNTLY NORTH, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

The Phillips Gully Gold Mining Precinct is a good characteristic example of shallow sinkings for alluvial gold. The site consists of the relics of mines and campsites including the remnants…

SAWPIT GULLY GOLD PUDDLING SITE

MUD HUT TRACK HEATHCOTE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

The Sawpit Gully Gold Puddling Site consists of the remnants of two puddling machines complete with dumps of washed gravels, and patches of ground surfacing and shallow sinkings. These…

BLOWHOLES GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL

BLOWHOLE TRACK HEPBURN AND DRY DIGGINGS TRACK BASALT, HEPBURN SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Blowholes Gold Diversion Tunnel is a creek diversion which was probably built in the early 1860s when Jim Crow Creek was being extensively worked by European and Chinese miners. The…

POUND BEND GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL

POUND BEND ROAD WARRANDYTE AND KANGAROO GROUND-WARRANDYTE ROAD NORTH WARRANDYTE, MANNINGHAM CITY, NILLUMBIK SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Pound Bend Gold Diversion Tunnel is a diversion which was excavated in 1870 by the Evelyn Tunnelling and Mining Company. The tunnel was used to divert the waters of the Yarra River…

HOUGHTONS FLAT GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL

SLAUGHTER WALKING TRACK DEPTFORD, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Houghton's Flat Gold Diversion Tunnel is a diversion which was probably excavated in 1873 by the Nicholson River Sluicing Company. The tunnel was used to divert the waters of the…

SURFACE HILL HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING PIT

SURFACE HILL ROAD SMYTHESDALE, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Surface Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Pit consists of a large excavation containing a network of pebble dumps, tail races and drainage adits. Water for sluicing would have been delivered…

DUKE AND TIMOR DEEP LEAD GOLD MINE

GRAND DUKE HISTORIC RESERVE, TIMOR-DUNOLLY ROAD TIMOR, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

One 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…

PINK CLIFFS HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE

PINK CLIFFS ROAD HEATHCOTE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

Hydraulic 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…

BAXTER LEAD ALLUVIAL GOLD MINING PRECINCT

BAXTER TRACK WATERLOO, PYRENEES SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The 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…

OLD LEAD DIGGINGS

OLD LEAD ROAD AND OLD LEAD ROAD DUNOLLY, LODDON SHIRE, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The 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…

BUCKLAND RIVER CROSSING

BUCKLAND VALLEY ROAD BUCKLAND, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Buckland River Crossing being the river and surrounding landscape where the Buckland Valley Riot of 1857 culminated. How is it significant? The Buckland River Crossing is of historical…

Phillips Gully Gold Mining Precinct

CA 10 Hartlands Road, HUNTLY NORTH VIC 3551 - Property No 209570

Greater Bendigo City

Lightning Hill Historic Area

CA 196N Hill Street, EAGLEHAWK VIC 3556 - Property No 197928

Greater Bendigo City

[Lightning Hill Mines, Dams & Alluvial Workings] The site is representative of a sequence of uses or functions over time from the very earliest to the last period of mining: from shallow…

Elysian Lead 1 Mine

77 Rayners Road, NEILBOROUGH VIC 3570 - Property No 201244

Greater Bendigo City

Veteran's Rush Shallow Diggings & Alluvial Workings (shallow sinkings)

1484 Eaglehawk-Neilborough, NEILBOROUGH VIC 3570 - Property No 207637

Greater Bendigo City

The site contains one of the last remnants of shallow alluvial workings known as the Shallow Diggings, which were an important phase in the early mining around Elysian Flat (criterion A).…

Black Rock Flat Mines & Alluvial Workings

CA 17D Hartlands Road, NEILBOROUGH VIC 3570 - Property No 198552

Greater Bendigo City

The site contains representative examples of shallow alluvial and reef workings of a type found at many other sites within the study area.

Myers Creek Alluvial Workings

Part CA 36 Loddon Valley Highway, MYERS FLAT VIC 3556 - Property No 230996

Greater Bendigo City

The site defines the location of one of the earliest and more permanent shallow alluvial workings on Bendigo beyond Bendigo Creek itself (criterion A) andmarks out the main line of alluvium…

FIDDLERS GREEN ALLUVIAL WORKINGS

RIFLE RANGE ROAD EAGLEHAWK NORTH, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Victorian Heritage Inventory

The site contains two dams, at least one of which is known to have first been built by 1879, a puddling machine likely to be a rare and relatively intact nineteenth century puddling machine…

Peter the Great, White Jacket and Blue Jacket Mines and Alluvial Workings

Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road EAGLEHAWK NORTH, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Greater Bendigo City

[Peter the Great Gully (right hand branch)] The site has a representative sample of shallow alluvial and reef workings (criterion C). It contains what is probably the oldest mining dam in the…

Blue Jacket Reef Historic Area - Blue Jacket Reef (Blue Jacket Gully) Mine & Alluvial Workings and Blue Jacket Reef (One Eye Gully) Mine & Alluvial Workings

CA 22C Lenton Road EAGLEHAWK, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Greater Bendigo City

[Blue Jacket Gully] The site contains representative examples of three of shallow reef workings, and later re-working of the surface alluvia with improved technology. It is easily accessible…