The colourful phenomenon of this site just outside Heatcote was created by gold mining using hydraulic sluicing in the late 1870s through the 1880s. Water for the sluicing was delivered to the site by a water race and high pressure hoses were directed at the gold bearing deposits. Operations were eventually banned because of damage to grazing land but not before this pretty scar on the land was made that is still very evident today.
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