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Great Western Lead - Historic Mining Reserve, between Ruthvens Access Road and Western Highway, GREAT WESTERN

Location

Ruthvens Access Road cnr Western Highway GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The Great Western Lead features a little disturbed narrow band of intensive shafts and mounds along a Tertiary gravel high lead and provides evidence of small scale mining following a rush of mainly Chinese miners in 1862.

The Great Western Lead is historically and scientifically important at a LOCAL level as a substantially intact example of an important gold mining technique. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria. Overall the Great Western Lead is of LOCAL significance.

RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Gold Mining Site