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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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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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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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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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WONTHAGGI STATE COAL MINE NORTHERN PRECINCT (19 & 20 SHAFTS)
BASS HIGHWAY DALYSTON, BASS COAST SHIRE
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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Creamery Valley Road and Woomera Creek TOORA, South Gippsland Shire
The site of the Toora Tin Mines and the associated water races, established 1884 and operating until c.1942, at Creamery Valley and Woomera Road, Toora. How is it significant?The former…
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