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A look at some of the many interesting abandoned gold mines throughout the Victorian Goldfields! โEureka Reef, ChewtonBeehive Mine, MaldonJubilee Mine, Staff.
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Every few years something happens in Victoria's goldfields โ a sinkhole in a backyard, the discovery of a gaping hole next to a primary school โ to remind residents of the history waiting to reappear beneath their feet. Nobody is quite sure how many old mines are littered across Victoria, but the conservative estimate is 19,000.
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20 abandoned mines to explore in the Victorian Goldfields Goldfields Guide
There are about 50,000 abandoned mine sites across Australia, lying among communities and giving rise to myriad social, health and environmental concerns. Approximately 19,000 of these are in Victoria. Most of these mines date from Australia's prosperous gold-mining era, yet their impacts are still felt by communities today.
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Victoria was the heart of the Australian Gold Rush in the 1850's with most activity occuring in and around Ballarat and Bendigo. The Gold Rush attracted people from around the globe, many from Europe and China, the miners were known as 'diggers'.
Disused mine at Strathbogie mines Strathbogie Victoria underground abandoned disused
The Victorian landscape is scarred by an estimated 19,000 abandoned mines, thousands more than any other Australian state. New research from The Australia Institute shows that on average one mine a year is abandoned in Victoria.
Abandoned industrial gold mine environment and historic mining facility captured with aerial
Located at the heart of the central Victorian goldfields, this is a rare place where you can see authentic traces of days gone by. Explore abandoned mines and settlements among shady Box-Ironbark woodlands. The discovery of gold in July 1851 lured tens of thousands of migrants to the Castlemaine area.
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Sandy Guy โ 27 April 2022 The Goldfields of Victoria have a great deal to see and do, but you'll find the gems hidden off the beaten track Stoney Creek School, near the old goldmining town of Talbot in central Victoria, closed in 1916, and its buildings were demolished long ago.
Disused mine at Strathbogie mines Strathbogie Victoria underground abandoned disused
History of gold mining in Victoria Victoria is a world-renowned gold province and our history is closely connected to gold mining. Gold discovery at Ballarat in 1851 sparked Victoria's famous gold rush. An estimated 6000 diggers (miners) arrived each week seeking their fortune.
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Tunnel Hill Mine, Talbot Victoria. The impact of the gold rush is strongly evident in the towns of the Victorian Goldfields as well as scattered throughout the surrounding bushland. Mineshafts and mullock heaps are an extremely common sight throughout the bushland of the goldfields.
20 abandoned mines to explore in the Victorian Goldfields Goldfields Guide
By June 1852 Bendigo had a population of 40,000. Through 1853 there were gold discoveries at Daylesford, Creswick, Maryborough and Maldon. In the second half of the decade there were rushes to the west at St Arnaud, Ararat, Stawell, Dunolly, Rutherglen and Chiltern, Jamieson, Blackwood. An illustration of Pegleg Gully, near Ballarat in 1854.
20 abandoned mines to explore in the Victorian Goldfields Goldfields Guide
Diggers road guide to the gold mines of Victoria and the country extending 210 miles round Melbourne, 1853 Ham's Squatting Map of Victoria, 1853 Pocket map of the roads to all the mines in Victoria, 1853. Diagram map showing the worked portions of the Victorian gold fields and the boundaries of the Gold Commissioners' districts, 1855
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The ghost town of Whroo, Victoria, is an abandoned attraction in an abandoned ghost town built at an abandoned gold mine. Two sailors - John Thomas Lewis and James Meek Nickinson discovered a gold nugget in the grass at Whroo in 1854, the same date as Russia's Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War, hence the name.
Disused mine at Strathbogie mines Strathbogie Victoria underground abandoned disused
Mercury has been used in gold mining from antiquity ( Agricola, 1950) and spread to the New World with European exploitation of Mexican and Central and South American gold and silver deposits from the 16th century ( Bakewell 1971; Guerrero, 2017; Lacerda and Salomans, 1998; Malm, 1998; Robins, 2011 ).
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20 Abandoned Mines to Explore in the Victorian Goldfields! Watch on Jubilee Mine, Staffordshire Reef VIC Jubilee Mine, Staffordshire Reef VIC The extensive ruins of the Jubilee Company Quartz Gold Mine are a fascinating place to explore.
20 abandoned mines to explore in the Victorian Goldfields Goldfields Guide
The Victorian government has published a number of excellent online archaeological histories of gold mining sites across Victoria, and histories of mining plots in Gippsland, North East, North West and South West Victoria.