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Surface Hill
LocationSMYTHESDALE, Golden Plains Shire LevelHeritage Inventory Site |
Statement of Significance
Victorian Heritage Register
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
01.1860: at Surfacing Hill, Mr. Lock was preparing for a similar experiment to that being undertaken by the
Black Hill Puddling and Sluicing Co.
03.07.1875: Mr. Bowden and his party of 16 men had constructed fluming to give them an extra sluice head of
water. Surface Hill was being mined at this time. The ground was 16 feet deep and a report how thedangerous pillars of earth left from the old workings had to be felled. to 1880's: surfacing and sluicing of the hills was undertaken during the months of the year when rainfall provided sufficient water; sluicing was the main form of alluvial mining at this time and good rainfall had meant that it continued for nine months in the Smythesdale District during 1888. 1890's: Sluicing of the hills and along the creeks continued during the 1890's and when water was available parties were active at Black Hill, Scarsdale and at Watson's Hill and Fraser's Hill, Smythesdale.
Group
Mining and Mineral Processing
Category
Sluicing Hole/Area