MORNING STAR MINE AND INGLEWOOD GOVERNMENT BATTERY
Location
PHILLIPS STREET INGLEWOOD, LODDON SHIRE
Level
Heritage Inventory Site
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Statement of Significance
SiteCard data copied on 03/07/2024:
What is significant?
The site possessed evidence of two crushing batteries - one associated with a mining company and the other with the Victorian Government's attempts in the early stages of the twentieth century to promote local prospecting for gold.
How is it significant?
The site is significance because of it has:
Intactness: retained evidence of the key aspects of a quartz mine – remains of a crushing battery, winding engine bed and shaft; and a Government battery
Integrity: a compact arrangement of mining relics which demonstrates two periods of quartz mining.
Condition: retained fabric in a condition that can be understood and interpreted
Why is it significant?
As a relic of Victoria’s historic gold mining industry. The site also demonstrates the investment by private companies into gold mining and the government's support for the gold industry in the early twentieth century.
Group
Mining and Mineral Processing
Category
Battery/Crusher
