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EVANS REWARD MINE

Location

OLD WARBURTON ROAD WARBURTON, YARRA RANGES SHIRE

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

The site is of historical and archaeological significance as rare evidence of the gold mining activity in the Yarra Ranges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The site demonstrates the characteristic form of mining adits, various spoil and rock heaps can be discerned along with terraces and cuts into the hill side.

 
The site is of archaeological significance for its potential to reveal more detailed evidence of structures on the form of occupation deposits from the people who worked and lived on the site, as well as physical remnants of the operations of the mine such as spoil heaps and remains of buildings and machinery.

Group

Manufacturing and Processing

Category

Mining Site - other than gold