Australasian Mine No. 1 Historic Area

On the 11th of December 1882, water from these old workings flooded into the nearby Australasian No. 2 mine, trapping twenty seven men underground. Rescue efforts commenced immediately but by the time the miners were reached three days later only five had survived. The body of one man was still warm when it was recovered.

Terrible mining catastrophe, The Ballarat Star, 13th December 1882.

This was one of Australia's worst underground mining disasters. You can read newspaper articles and tragic first hand accounts of the disaster here.

• New Australasian No. 2 Gold Mine
• Buried Alive - collection of incidents printed in newspapers during the 1850s, which tell of tragic accidents where miners were literally buried alive.
• Gold history locations in the Victorian Goldfields
• Gold prospecting in the Victorian Goldfields
• Historical Gold Maps of the Victorian Goldfields