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Swantons Battery Site and Cyanide Vats, Stuart Mill area, STUART MILL

Location

STUART MILL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

This area includes a battery site which is dominated by the remains of a large stone boiler setting, together with a scatter of ripped up bed logs and stamper foundations. A tailings dump 30 m wide and 1.5 m high, and three buried galvanised iron cyanide vats are also located on site. The battery operated in the 1890s, while the cyanide vats date from this century.

The Swanton's Battery site and cyanide vats are 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 Swanton's Battery site and cyanide vats are of LOCAL significance.

RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Battery/Crusher