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NINE MILE CREEK HISTORIC MINING LANDSCAPE
LocationOFF STANLEY ROAD, STANLEY VIC 3747 LevelHeritage Inventory Site |
Statement of Significance
From the RNE citation: The Nine Mile Creek historic area is significant for its outstanding diversity of gold-mining sites which represent nineteenth century methods of both alluvial mining and reef mining (including open cut reef mining), the two main types of gold-mining carried out on Australian fields. The area is associated with an important era in the history of north-eastern Victoria and it reflects the industry which supported Beechworth, Yackandandah and other towns in the region for a substantial part of the second half of the last century. The way in which the mining sites blend in with a rugged creek valley heavily clad with native timber gives the place aesthetically important landscape qualities.
Group
Mining and Mineral Processing
Category
Gold Mining Site