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Miner's Hut Ruins and Gold Diggings

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Off White Horse Track, Craigie VIC 3465

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Features

  • Miner's hut ruins
  • Line of gold workings
  • Open mine shafts
  • Scattered rubble and relics
  • Bushland
  • Gold prospecting
This stone fireplace of an old miner's hut stands in the bush off White Horse Track, within the Craigie State Forest. The fireplace is surrounded by scattered rubble (both stone and brick), as well as relics such as pottery and metal fragments. 

A long line of gold diggings begins at White Horse Track behind the fireplace, and heads off in a line up the hill in a northern direction. There are multiple deep open mine shafts along this line, be careful while walking off the track. 

This site is located just off White Horse Track along an unnamed road. From Majorca Road, take White Horse Track a short way into the bush and then turn left at the first turn-off. The stone fireplace is just up ahead, to the right of this track.

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