Blowhole Diversion Tunnel

The Blowhole diversion tunnel is located on the Sailors (or Jim Crow) Creek, Hepburn, Victoria, Australia. The creek flows around a spur in a horseshoe bend. The tunnel was driven through the spur diverting the river and allowing the exposed river bed to be sluiced for alluvial gold. It "was probably built in the early 1860s when Jim Crow Creek was being extensively worked by European and Chinese miners".^[1][2]

The site is part of Hepburn Regional Park.^[3]

The Blowhole is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register^[4] and covered by a Heritage Overlay.^[1]

References

1. "Blowholes gold diversion tunnel, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H1259, Heritage Overlay HO741". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
2. "Historic Gold Mining Sites in Hepburn Mining Division, Report on Cultural Heritage" (PDF), Victorian Goldfields Project, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, April 1999, archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2011
3. "Hepburn Regional Park, Mt Franklin Reserve Visitor Guide" (PDF), Park Notes, Parks Victoria, April 2010, archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2011, retrieved 13 September 2010
4. Heritage Victoria. "Blowholes Gold Diversion Tunnell". Retrieved 19 July 2014.

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