Blue Jacket Reef Historic Area - Blue Jacket Reef (Blue Jacket Gully) Mine & Alluvial Workings and Blue Jacket Reef (One Eye Gully) Mine & Alluvial Workings

Location

CA 22C Lenton Road EAGLEHAWK, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

[Blue Jacket Gully] The site contains representative examples of three of shallow reef workings, and later re-working of the surface alluvia with improved technology. It is easily accessible and has the potential to educate and illustrate several important periods in the development of Bendigo mining (criterion C). It forms the central portion of a network of workings along, and in the vicinity of, Blue Jacket Reef which was one of the early reef systems worked in the area.

[One Eye Gully] The site contains examples of three of the main phases of mining in the Whipstick area: early shallow alluvial workings leading to later reef workings, and eventually re-working of the surface alluvia with improved technology. It is easily accessible and has the potential to educate and illustrate several important periods in the development of Bendigo mining (criterion C). It forms the southernmost end of a network of workings along, and in the vicinity of, Blue Jacket Reef which was one of the early reef systems worked in the area.

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Alluvial Workings