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Queensland Company Mine, off Wycheproof Road, ST ARNAUD

Location

Wycheproof Road ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

This site features a battery, sludge ponds and dam (of generally poor integrity). Nearby, of lesser significance, and associated with the operations of other mining companies are tailings dumps and open cuts.

The Queensland Company Mine Site 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 Queensland Company Mine Site is of LOCAL significance

RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL

Scientific Significance, because of the survival of a number of features associated with the Queensland Co.'s battery (battery foundations, sludge pond and water dam).

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Gold Mining Site