HUMBUG HILL WORKINGS
Location
CRESWICK REGIONAL PARK AND SLATY CREEK ROAD CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE
Level
Heritage Inventory Site
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Statement of Significance
Note: This place is also listed on the Victorian Heritage Register as a place of significance to the State of Victoria. Please see VHR H1228 for further information.
The Humbug Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site consists of a sluicing pit about 100 metres by 50 metres containing a network of pebble dumps and tail races. The slope below the pit has been extensively ground sluiced and the gully draining from the southern end of the pit has been deeply excavated by high pressure water. At least two water races brought water to Humbug Hill, one from Bragge's Dam (across Salty Creek); the other from Russells Reservoir (down Lincoln Gully). The latter race is still well preserved and is included in the nomination.
The Humbug Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site is of historical, archaeological and scientific importance to the State of Victoria.
The Humbug Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site is historically and scientifically important as a characteristic and well preserved example of an early form of gold mining. Gold mining sites are of crucial importance for the pivotal role they have played since 1851 in the development of Victoria. Hydraulic sluicing of alluvial gold deposits is an important key ingredient in an understanding of gold mining technology as it was employed in country where water was plentiful and perennial.
The Humbug Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site is archaeologically important for its potential to yield artefacts and evidence which will be able to provide significant information about the cultural history of gold mining and the gold seekers themselves.
[Source: Victorian Heritage Register.]
Group
Mining and Mineral Processing
Category
Sluicing Hole/Area
