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Glasgow and Golconda Consolidate Company Mine Site

Other Names

Golconda Company Mine Site , Glasgow Reef United Co Mine Site

Location

66 Ham Street, GOLDEN GULLY VIC 3555 - Property No 210155

Level

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Golden Gully Conservation Area

Statement of Significance

[Golden Gully Conservation Area] comprising: Glasgow and Golconda Consolidated, Glasgow Reef Compnay, (Golden Gully), and New Napoleon.

Significance: The area contains the best evidence for hydraulic sluicing on the field as well as several early reef mining sites.

[Glasgow and Golconda Consolidated] Significance: A site which was continuously occupied between 1856 and 1909 by the leading mining company in the area, which defines the southern extent of the Napoleon line of reef, and is the only one on Bendigo which retains evidence of the tramway between the mine and the battery site.

[Glasgow Reef] Significance: Representative of what now survives at one of the early reef workings on Bendigo.

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