


Gold Reef Mine – Western Mining History - Recent and potential metallic mining projects in …
These buried ancient river courses bearing gold were called leads. The first gold found in Ballarat was alluvial gold found in the Yarrowee Creek. Miners then began digging to uncover the buried leads. By the 1860's miners were mining the quartz reefs to extract the gold. In the early days of alluvial lead mining, the miner's had no way of ...Take a short stroll through the Hustlers Reef Gold Mining Reserve and learn about the history of one of Bendigo's richest underground mines - and the site of the town's worst mining accident. Detailed information signs …
