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100 VINCENT STREET DAYLESFORD, HEPBURN SHIRE
VHR H2434The Daylesford School of Mines comprises the Laboratory Building with Chimney and the Art Department Building dating from 1890, and the Technical School Addition of 1914. Both the…
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VINEYARD ROAD CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
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…
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WELCOME REEF GULLY GOLD PUDDLING SITE
MT CAMEL-GRAYTOWN ROAD MOORMBOOL WEST, STRATHBOGIE SHIRE
VHR H1248The Welcome Reef Gully Gold Puddling Site consists of the remnants of one puddling machine complete with dumps of washed gravels. The puddling machine site is very rare in that the puddling…
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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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DELEGATE RIVER GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL
TUNNEL RIDGE TRACK DELEGATE RIVER AND BENDOC, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1261The Delegate River Gold Diversion Tunnel is a diversion which was excavated in 1889 by the Delegate River Gold Sluicing Company. The tunnel was used to divert the waters of the Delegate…
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HARRISONS CUT GOLD DIVERSION SITE
UPPER DARGO ROAD DARGO, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H1263The Harrisons Cut Gold Diversion Site is a 50 metre diversion which was probably excavated in the early 1880s. The name Harrison has strong connections with the Crooked River-Dargo goldfield…
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ALPINE NATIONAL PARK DARTMOUTH, TOWONG SHIRE
VHR H1266The Greens Creek Gold Battery Site consists of the remains of a 10-head stamping battery, horizontal steam engine, two multi tubular boilers, and various buried and partly buried pieces of…
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DRY GULLY ROAD OMEO, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1269The Gambetta Reef Gold Battery Site consists of the remains of one 5-head iron framed battery, portable steam engine, and various buried and partly buried piece of machinery. The site also…
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DEGREAVES TRACK BENAMBRA, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1271The New Chum Gold Battery Site consists of a 15ft diameter iron waterwheel and the remains of a 4-head stamping battery. The wheel, which still retains its brass fittings, spokes and buckets…
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HOWQUA UNITED GOLD TREATMENT WORKS
HOWQUA HILLS TRACK HOWQUA HILLS, MANSFIELD SHIRE
VHR H1279The Howqua United Gold Treatment Works consists of the remains of pyritic roasting furnace with an intact brick chimney stack. Near the roasting furnace is a battery site which was powered…
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LA MASCOTTE GOLD BATTERY SITE AND CHLORINATION WORKS
SIPTHORPES TRACK, LITTLE DART RIVER CORRYONG, TOWONG SHIRE
VHR H1276The La Mascotte Gold Battery and Chlorination Works has been well scavenged but still retains a 60ft long roasting furnace. The furnace is constructed of rivetted iron panels and its…
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THE CANYON HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE
FRASERS LANE BRIGHT, ALPINE SHIRE
VHR H1231The Canyon Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site consists of a large excavation containing a network of pebble dumps and tail races. The tail races have been cut through a ridge of Bedrock from the…
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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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NEW AUSTRALASIAN NO. 2 DEEP LEAD GOLD MINING SITE AND MEMORIAL
95 AUSTRALASIA DRIVE CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE
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…
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MOUNT MERRIMAC GOLD BATTERY SITE
LIGHTNING CREEK MITTA MITTA, TOWONG SHIRE
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…
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MORNING STAR GOLD BATTERY SITE
MORNING STAR CREEK YANGOURA, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H1265The Morning Star Gold Battery Site consists of a metal pitchback waterwheel. The waterwheel is a remnant of a ore a crushing battery which was installed during the period 1904-10 and was one…
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COSTERFIELD GOLD AND ANTIMONY MINING PRECINCT
HEATHCOTE-NAGAMBIE ROAD COSTERFIELD AND COSTERFIELD RESERVOIR ROAD AND COSTERFIELD-REDCASTLE ROAD COSTERFIELD, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1298The Costerfield Gold and Antimony Mining Precinct consists of three sites (Bombay Mine, Minerva Mine and Costerfield Main shaft. The precinct has a range of concrete, brick and timber…
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LISLES AND MANTONS GULLIES QUARTZ GOLD MINES
MOUNT TARRENGOWER ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
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…
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GARFIELD WATERWHEEL QUARTZ GOLD MINING SITE
NORTH STREET CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
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…
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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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BERRY NO.1 DEEP LEAD GOLD MINE
1541 DAYLESFORD-CLUNES ROAD LAWRENCE, HEPBURN SHIRE
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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BLIND CREEK OCHRE MINE & PROCESSING SITE
OFF KINGOWER-ARNOLD ROAD KINGOWER, LODDON SHIRE
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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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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