SIMMONS REEF GOLD MINING PRECINCT

Location

SIMMONS REEF ROAD BLACKWOOD, MOORABOOL SHIRE

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

 
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What is significant?

This landscape has never been surveyed due to thick vegetation and dangerous mine openings. Given this it is difficult to know whether they are hut sites and archaeological deposits , or mining machinery foundations.

How is it significant?

The site has significance because of its:
 
Condition: undisturbed landscape so there may be retained fabric in a condition that can be understood and interpreted
 

Why is it significant?

The landscape will certainly contain more historic mining features than currently known.

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Gold Mining Site