New Moon Quartz Gold Mine Sites

This extensive and mostly intact site retains foundations from the mine's most productive period of operations, unlike most other mines within the Bendigo urban area (criterion B). The site contains the largest extant battery foundations on the Bendigo goldfield. The New Moon Battery was the third largest battery in operation, after Lansell's 105 head battery and the Koch Pioneer 84 head battery (criterion C). The site displays one of the longest sequences of use by any mining company (criterion B), was among the top seven gold producers on a goldfield reported to have contained 829 mines [75], is associated with an important period of Bendigo's mining history (that is, it is a key site for the period from 1888 to 1913 (criterion A and criterion D), and has the potential to educate and illustrate the "big-mine" phase of Bendigo mining (criterion C).

(South New Moon Mine)

This extensive and mostly intact site retains foundations from all the later and major phases of the mine's operations, unlike most other mines within the Bendigo urban area (criterion B). The site displays one of the longest sequence of use by mining companies, which were among the top seven gold producers on a goldfield reported to have consisted of 829 mines [44], is associated with an important period of Bendigo's mining history (that is, it is a key site for the period from 1888 to 1913)(criterion A) and has the potential to educate and illustrate the "big-mine" phase of Bendigo mining (criterion C).

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Cyanide vat