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20 ELDORADO-BYAWATHA ROAD ELDORADO, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY
VHR H0386The dredge is situated south-west of the township of Eldorado, in theparish of Byawatha, 10 miles from Wangaratta in north-eastern Victoria.In mid 1935, the Thompson Engineering Company of…
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OFF GREAT ALPINE ROAD HOTHAM HEIGHTS, MOUNT HOTHAM ALPINE RESORT
VHR H1609Spargos Hut was built in 1928-29 as a base for summer gold prospecting activities by William (Bill) Spargo, head of the Country Roads Board road gangs in charge of the reconstruction of the…
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WATER WHEEL AND MINE MACHINERY
WEONE MINE, WELLS BOUNDARY TRACK MURMUNGEE, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY
VHR H0356Situated in a low forested glade, this ramshackle collection of structures is probably unique in Victoria. Although erected in fairly recent times, it demonstrates superbly the small gold…
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COAL PIT ROAD AND SOUTH GIPPSLAND HIGHWAY HEDLEY, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H1058The Gelliondale Brown Coal and Oil Co. commenced operations in 1930 and under the direction and ownership of James T Knox started manufacturing briquettes in 1934. The company ceased the…
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GREAT ALPINE ROAD HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE
VHR H1273The Monarch Gold Battery Site consists of the remains of one 5-head stamp battery (in a 10-head iron frame), portable steam engine, shaking table, various buried and partly buried piece of…
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SUNRAYSIA HIGHWAY STUART MILL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H1274Lloyds Whip Gold Mining Site consists of a timber tripod structure (known as a whip pole) a mine shaft and associated mullock dump. The structure dates from the 1930s and is typical of…
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GLENGARRY GOLD BATTERY AND CHLORINATION WORKS
CORRYONG-BENAMBRA ROAD CORRYONG, TOWONG SHIRE
VHR H1278The Glengarry Gold Battery and Chlorination Works consists of the remains of a 5-head timber framed battery and associated oil engine, wilfley table and water tank. Connected to the battery…
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GROWLERS GOLD BUCKET DREDGE SITE
WILLIAMS ROAD WANDILIGONG, ALPINE SHIRE
VHR H1303The Growlers Creek Gold Bucket Dredge Site consists of a largely buried timber pontoon. The skeletal remains of the pontoon is very overgrown by trees, ferns and blackberries, but appears to…
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FOREST CREEK TOURIST GOLD MINE
DUKE STREET CASTLEMAINE AND HITCHCOCK STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1322The Forest Creek Tourist Gold Mine possesses a complete and functional hydraulic sluicing plant. The machinery, including a 200hp gas engine and gas-producing plant was installed in 1936. The…
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NORTH DEBORAH QUARTZ GOLD MINE
4 EVE STREET GOLDEN SQUARE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1353The North Deborah Quartz Gold Mine consists of a steel poppet head, sets of concrete engine beds, an intact brick chimney stack, and remnants of flues and boiler setting. These are relics of…
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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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MOUNT TARRENGOWER LOOK-OUT TOWER
MOUNT TARRENGOWER ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1407In May 1923 a public meeting was convened by the Maldon Shire to investigate ways to develop the natural resources of the district in order to once more bring the town into prominence as an…
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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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WONTHAGGI STATE COAL MINE CENTRAL PRECINCT
GRAHAM STREET WONTHAGGI, BASS COAST SHIRE
VHR H1778At the beginning of the twentieth century black coal from New South Wales powered Victoria’s railway system, gasworks and manufacturing industries. In 1909 a prolonged strike on the New…
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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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76 VIOLET STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1841Bendigo is Victoria's premier quartz mining centre having produced over 22 million ounces of gold between 1851 and 1954. This gold was won through the exploits of over 5,500 gold…
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THOMSON RIVER DIVERSION TUNNEL SITE
THOMSON RIVER WALHALLA, BAW BAW SHIRE
VHR H1990The Thomson River Diversion Tunnel Site including the 220 metre tunnel through Stockriders Spur, the 1.2km section of river bed known as Horseshoe Bend between the tunnel's inlet and outlet,…
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WONTHAGGI STATE COAL MINE (EASTERN PRECINCT)
STATE COAL MINE ACCESS ROAD WONTHAGGI, BASS COAST SHIRE
VHR H0198The Wonthaggi State Coal Mine Eastern Area operated from 1919 to 1947. The Historic Reserve site includes the underground mine areas of the original No.1 bench, with three tunnels and…
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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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end Quarry Road TYNONG NORTH, Cardinia Shire
The Tynong quarry is significant to Victoria as the source of the granite used in the construction of the nationally known Shrine of Remembrance in the 1920s-30s and is locally important as a…
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75 SMITHS GULLY RD SMITHS GULLY, NILLUMBIK SHIRE
REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE, CONTEXT, 2010 The remains of the c1920 State battery, the machinery block remains, the concrete dam and the site to a radius of 100 metres. How is it…
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Duke Street; Berkshire Road, SUNSHINE VIC 3020 - Property No 101
Of historical significance as one of the last remaining bluestone quarries in an area which was once Melbourne's leading producer of bluestone. The rock face indicates the depth of the stone,…
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