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…

YACKANDANDAH CREEK HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING PIT

NUMBER ONE LINK ROAD STANLEY, INDIGO SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The 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…

ORIENTAL CLAIMS HYDRAULIC SLUICING SITE

GREAT ALPINE ROAD OMEO, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Oriental Claims Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site consists of a vast network of sluicing faces, pebble dumps, tail races and water races. Water for sluicing would have been delivered to 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…

HUMBUG HILL HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE

LINCOLN GULLY ROAD CRESWICK AND CABBAGE TREE, HEPBURN SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Humbug Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site consists of a large sluicing pit containing a network of pebble dumps and tail races. The slope below the pit has been extensively ground sluiced…

PIONEER AND UNION HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE

OMEO HIGHWAY MITTA MITTA, TOWONG SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Pioneer and Union Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site consists of a vast network of sluicing faces, pebble dumps, tail races and water races. Water for sluicing was brought to the site by a…

RED HILL HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE

BREAKNECK HILL TRACK IRISHTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The 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…

BUCKLAND RIVER HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING PADDOCK

OFF BUCKLAND ROAD BUCKLAND, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Buckland River Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Paddock consists of an area about 100 metres by 50 metres containing a small sluiced open cut, pebble dumps and a tail race. Water for sluicing…

NEW NUGGETTY GULLY ALLUVIAL GOLD WORKINGS

WERONA-YANDOIT ROAD FRANKLINFORD, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The 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…

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…

Pink Cliffs Gold Sluicing Site

Pink Cliffs Road, HEATHCOTE VIC 3523

Greater Bendigo City

See also Heritage Victoria Hermes entry # 5248 Hydraulic sluicing operations on the site were carried out under the direction of James Hedley from the late 1870s through the 1880s. Hedley's…