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ZULU CREEK GOLD MINING LANDSCAPE

Other Name

Just-In-Time Battery Site

Location

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The Zulu Creek Workings, including the archaeological features that relate to gold extraction during different phases of workings, from 1879 through to c.1937.

• Adits

• Surface Workings

• Battery Site

• Water Wheel Pit

• Weir Wall

• Cyanide Plant

• Early Battery location

• Mullock heaps

• Rock-walled creek diversion

• Rock retaining wall

How is it significant?

The Zulu Creek Goldfield is of local historical (Criterion A) and archaeological significance for its potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Victoria’s cultural history (Criterion C).

Why is it significant?

The Zulu Creek Workings by virtue of their remote location in ruggard, mountainous terrain evoke the hardship faced by miners working to find gold. There is potential through the archaeological remains to learn more about the technologies employed during different phases of the field’s history. Alluvial workings, alongside quartz reef workings and then the later use of cyanide plant to treat the ore and extract the gold, illustrates the evolving technologies (not to mention the dogged persistence) employed by people in the pursuit of gold.

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