KLONDYKE ADIT

Adit and associated features

Significant due to its association with the Victorian Gold Rush and development of the State's 19th century quartz mining industry.

Quartz reefs have been mined for gold in Victoria since the early 1850s and have been, by far, the State’s primary source of gold. Most quartz mines associated with the gold-mining industry today had their origins in the 19th century. Economic forces and technological change have resulted in cycles of exploration, development, mining and closure. In effect, Victoria’s quartz mines – not just as a collective resource, but down to the same shafts, adits, and even refuse – have been in active use and potential re-use for close to 170 years.