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Sluicing Dam, Victoria Gully, Kara Kara State Park, STUART MILL

Location

Victoria Gully, Kara Kara State Park STUART MILL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

Remains at this site which date from the 1860s and after include a large silted sluicing dam with breached embankment, 90m long and 2m high, excavated paddocks, and shallow alluvial sinkings. The features are in comparatively good condition and have integrity which, together with nearby sites demonstrate different types of shallow alluvial mining.

The Sluicing Dam , Victoria Gully 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 Sluicing Dam , Victoria Gully is of LOCAL significance.

RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Mine Dam