Gold mines

Gold mines are the places - the shafts, pits and cutaways.

For the businesses see Gold mining companies.

History

The mines

Ararat

Archdale

Arthur's Creek

Avoca

Bald Hills

Ballan

Ballarat

See also: Ballarat

B - Ballarat City Mine - Ballarat Extension No. 1 - Band of Hope and Albion Consols No. 1 - Band of Hope and Albion Consols No. 2 - Band of Hope and Albion Consols No. 3 - Band of Hope and Albion Consols No. 4 - Band of Hope and Albion Consols No. 5 - Band of Hope Gold Mine - Bonshaw No. 1 - Bonshaw No. 2 - Bonshaw No. 3 - C - Cosmopolitan Gold Mine - Cosmopolitan No. 1 - G - Great Gulf No. 1 - Great Gulf No. 2 - Great North West No. 1 - Great North West No. 2 - H - Hand and Band No. 1 - Hand and Band No. 2 - Hand and Band No. 3 - Hand and Band No. 4 - Houses No. 1 South - K - Koh-i-Noor No. 1 - Koh-i-Noor No. 2 - Koh-i-Noor No. 3 - L - Leviathan No. 1 - Leviathan No. 2 - Leviathan No. 3 - N - Napier Extended Gold Mine - P - Park Mine - R - Rose Hill No. 1 - Rose Hill No. 2 - S - St Patrick No. 1 - W - Waterloo Gold Mine - Winter's Freehold No. 1 Mine - Working Miners No. 1 - Working Miners No. 2

Ascot

Bakery Hill

Ballarat East

Llanberris Quartz Mine - Llanberis No. 1 Mine - Llanberis No. 2 - [New North Queen Mining Co.]]

Ballarat West

Black Hill

Blue Riband Mine - New North Queen Mining Co.

Black Hill Flat

Black Hill Range

Brown Hill

Canadian

Central Plateau

Daltons Flat

Golden Point Diggings

Golden Point Lead

Gum Tree Flat

Hollow Back Hill

Inkermann Lead

Lake Wendouree

Greene's Paddock

Little Bendigo / Nerrina

Late in the year 1855 Hough and party sunk a large shaft or hole in the cap of a reef to a depth of 10 feet, and the quartz taken thereout yielded over 500 oxs. of gold. Several very rich specimens were found, containing from 20 ozs to 30 ozs. of gold, embedded in quartz. At the commencement, crushing it with hammers, washed off i tubs and in dishes, but after a time they erected a crushing machine, consisting of a flat sheet of perforated iron. The stone worked by a horse much as a whim is worked. The quartz was lain on the sheet of iron, and as the stone passing over it reduced it the pulverised quartz passed through the holes in the iron into a receiver, and was then washed off, but no regular quartz mining appears to have been done in this locality until 1858. ^[1]

Temperance Gold Mine

Magpie Range

Milkmaid's Lead

Mount Pleasant

Napoleon Lead

Nelson Lead

Post Office Hill

In 1855 several parties of miners were working this reef, but owing to the high rate of wages, cartage, &c., they simply broke the stone and hammered it about, and passed it over sieves for the purpose of separating debris from the solid stone, and the debris was then carted to White Flat and washed off in tubs at the Yarrowee Creek, the solid stone being thrown aside. ^[2]

In 1858 several small co-operative parties amalgamated, for the purpose of erecting a 16 head battery for joint use. Crushing was commenced in February 1859, but so defective was the battery that by the end of the month all the boxes were battered to pieces and had to be replaced. ^[3]

Red Hill

Red Streak

Redan

Band and Albion Mine

Redan Lead

Soldiers Hill

Specimen Hill

Suburban Lead

Swamp Lead

White Flat

White Horse Ranges

Winter's Flat

Winter's Paddock

Beaufort

Berry Deep Lead

Black Lead

Budgeon’s Flat

Bullarook

Buninyong

Bunker’s Hill

Cambrian Hill

Cardigan

Carisbrook

Carngham

Castlemaine

Cattle Station Hill

Clunes

Creswick

Daylesford

Dead Horse Ground

Derwent Jacks

Dunolly

Franklinford

Gordon's

Green Leek Flat

Haddon

Happy Valley

Hepburn / Hepburn Springs

Italian Gully

Jerusalem Lead

Jeweller's Shops

Kyneton

Linton

Lucky Woman’s

Magpie

Maldon

Maryborough

Mount Egerton

Mount Mercer

Mount Misery

Mount Rowan

Oakley's Diggings

Oldham Lead

Pitfield

Regent Gully

River Loddon

Rokewood

Sailor's Gully

Scarsdale

Sebastopol

Smeaton

Smythesdale

Sovereign Hill

Specimen Gully

Springdallah

Staffordshire Reef

Stawell

Stieglitz

Suburban Lead

Sulky Gully

Talbot

Amherst

Talbot Flat

Tea Tree

Timor

Trentham

Warren’s Lead

Welshman's Reef

Yandoit

To Be Located

Australasia Gold Mine - Ballarat City Mine - Black Hill Gold Mine - Britannia United Mine - Dalzell-Buchanan Mine - Egerton Mine - First Chance Gold Mine - Inkerman and Durham Mine - Kosinski Mine - Long Tunnel Mine - Maxwell Consolidated Mine - Midas Mine - Nelson Mine - New Normanby Gold Mine - Normandy North Mine - Park Lead Mine - Prince of Wales and Bonshaw Mine -South Woah Hawp Mine - Standard Company Mine - Woah Hawp Canton Mine

Notes

References

↑ Brough Smith, R., Mining & Mineral Statistics, Victorian Exhibition, Melbourne, 1872, p. 54.
↑ Brough Smith, R.,Mining & Mineral Statistics, Victorian Exhibition, Melbourne, 1872, p.61.
↑ Brough Smith, R.,Mining & Mineral Statistics, Victorian Exhibition, Melbourne, 1872, p.61-62.
↑ Whitelaw, H.S. and Baragwanath, W., The Daylesford Gold-field (with plans and sections), Bulletins of the Geological survey of Victoria No 42., Department of Mines, Victoria, 1923, p. 74.
↑ Whitelaw, H.S. and Baragwanath, W., The Daylesford Gold-field (with plans and sections), Bulletins of the Geological survey of Victoria No 42., Department of Mines, Victoria, 1923, p. 74.

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--Beth Kicinski 10:29, 21 November 2016 (AEDT)

[1] Brough Smith, R., Mining & Mineral Statistics, Victorian Exhibition, Melbourne, 1872, p. 54.

[2] Brough Smith, R.,Mining & Mineral Statistics, Victorian Exhibition, Melbourne, 1872, p.61.

[3] Brough Smith, R.,Mining & Mineral Statistics, Victorian Exhibition, Melbourne, 1872, p.61-62.

[4] Whitelaw, H.S. and Baragwanath, W., The Daylesford Gold-field (with plans and sections), Bulletins of the Geological survey of Victoria No 42., Department of Mines, Victoria, 1923, p. 74.

[5] Whitelaw, H.S. and Baragwanath, W., The Daylesford Gold-field (with plans and sections), Bulletins of the Geological survey of Victoria No 42., Department of Mines, Victoria, 1923, p. 74.

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