Historical Mining Activity

Mine Shaft Locations were collected by a variety of methods from 1869 in some areas of the state. Mainly concentrating in Ballarat and Bendigo. In places a shaft may be recorded multiple times with a different source. \nIn cases where several shaft locations are shown close together (generally with separations less than stated position errors) and they have different sources, it is possible that one shaft has been mapped several times. In cases where several shaft locations are shown close together but they have the same information source, it is possible that each shaft location represents a different shaft on the ground.\nBendigo Mines Hazard Data - a Review and History\n\nThe above created a dataset of around 19000 records\n\nMore recently, information has been compiled from data from\nDavid Bannear - 2017\nDELWP - 2017 \nParks Vic - 2017\nPeter Ward - 2019 - Public Contributor for the Victorian High Country\nFred Sargent - 2019 to 2022 - Public Contributor for the Victorian High Country (many thousands added)\nPeter Quinn - 2019 to 2022 - Public contributor\nSource for these is marked as Private survey - and source comment contains details.\n\nData is largely shafts. Sometimes quarries, open stopes, adits or workings.\n\nAnother useful dataset is MINSITE aka Vicmine aka Mines and Mineral Occurrences (more for resource, production, reference links and mineplans)