Wattle Gully Gold Mine in Chewton, Victoria, Australia | Landmark & historical place

Wattle Gully Gold Mine

Locality: Chewton, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 1300 644 574

Address: Wattle Gully Road 3451 Chewton, VIC, Australia

Website: https://fwg.org.au

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21.01.2022 Wattle Gully Gold Mine. Workers in the 1960s. (from left Ron Dennis, Arnold Baglin, Curly Ely ,Rupert Neaner and Jack McMahon)

21.01.2022 Underground at Number 11 level of Wattle Gully Gold Mine - North Shaft. The cross-fault (at and above the hammer) has truncated earlier fault-fill quartz in a west-dipping strike fault. The mine geologist is Terry Potter.

16.01.2022 A view of Wattle Gully Gold Mine Winding House which took the miners in the cages up and down the mine.

16.01.2022 A view of the Wattle Gully Mine. The timbers were used to shore up drives from the main shaft. A tramway can be seen in the middle of the photograph.

11.01.2022 At it's mid 20th century peak, the Wattle Gully Gold Mine site had numerous buildings. Sadly, many of these have now gone.

06.01.2022 Wattle Gully Gold Mine in 1946

03.01.2022 Had the opportunity to inspect the surface of the Wattle Gully Gold Mine near Chewton. The site was opened to the public by the Bendigo Branch of the National T...rust as part of the Australian Heritage Festival. The site has great historical and technological significance as it is one of the last fully intact examples of a 1950s underground mine in Victoria including features such as an electric driven winder, poppet legs, 20 head stamper battery and a 1980s cyanide plant. Hopefully sites like these can be preserved and made available for further public viewing so the story of mining in Australia can be passed on for future generations See more