VICTORY MINE & KAFFIR HILL RESERVE

The Former Victory Mine and Kaffir Hill Reserve, at the end of Kaffir Hill Road, Foster, where gold was discovered c.1870, is significant. The gold quartz reef mining site was the site of extensive mining in the 1870s and may once have had prospecting mine shafts, an underground tunnel and a horse drawn puddling machine. However most of the physical remnants of the mining activities have since been erased. Any remnant shafts or sluices, trenches, walking paths and mining-associated earth works are all significant to the site.

Victory Mine and Kaffir Hill Reserve are of historic and archaeological significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, Victory Mine and Kaffir Hill Reserve were areas of rich quartz reef mining and demonstrate the significance of gold mining on the establishment and development of Foster and the South Gippsland Shire. (Criterion A) 
The site also has the potential to yield information archaeologically about reef gold mining in South Gippsland and the community that developed within this period. (Criterion C)