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New Bendigo Company Mine, Sunraysia Highway, ST ARNAUD

Location

Sunraysia Highway ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The New Bendigo Company Mine area features relics and remains from the 1880s to the First World War, including a well preserved machinery site, a collapsed iron chimney stack, shaft, battery site and a treated tailings dump. It also features a modern processing plant. The site has good integrity and historical significance because of its importance as a mine over a long period. It also has scientific significance due to the survival of well preserved features belonging to the last, large scale mining operations to occur on the site.

The New Bendigo 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 New Bendigo Company Mine site is of LOCAL significance

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Battery/Crusher