This is a short 3 stage multi around Rutherglen.
Waypoint 1 - Dig Here
On this small traffic island you will see a cairn, erected in 1930 as a tribute to the party of miners who discovered gold here in September AEFD.
Proceed to S36 0(E-F).F(F/2)(A+A) E146 2(E-A).(E-D)(E-A)(Ax2)
Waypoint 2 - Break it Open
Gold Battery
The gold battery was built in September ABDE. This site was selected to utilise the surplus water from the adjacent Rutherglen Quartz Mine. The G head battery used steam power to crush the quartz to recover gold and other minerals from the numerous quartz reefs of the district. The battery uses 3,000 gallons (AC,GDD litres) of water to crush one ton of quartz. It has now been converted to electricity.
Proceed to the final at S36 0(G-A).(E-F)BF E146 2B.(A+C)GG
The Final: Where it all ends
Great Southern, a former gold mining locality in north-east Victoria, is 7 km south-east of Rutherglen.
The Great Southern Gold Mining Company was formed in 1889, and the mines required intermittent sinking of the shafts and dewatering until coming into production in about 1900. By 1903-04 mining employed nearly 400 workers and peak production was achieved in 1904-05.
In 1913 work ended at one of the mines and four years later the last of the big alluvial mines in the Rutherglen district closed down. The mines’ returns to the shareholders were poor compared to the wages paid, and closure was a blow to the local economy.
Great Southern is now a farming district, marked by a few large mine tailings sites.
The cache is an ex-fruit container.