Harrisons Cut gold diversion sluice is located on the Dargo River approximately 15 km north of Dargo, Victoria, Australia. The 50 m cutting diverts a length of the river and allowed the exposed river bed to be sluiced for alluvial gold. No record has been found of Harrison's Cut or any undertaking of its kind. Its position suggests a construction date in the 1880s.[1][2]

The cutting is one of around thirteen river diversions surviving from the Victorian gold rush.

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Harrisons Cut Gold Diversion Site, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H1263, Heritage Overlay Number HO113", Victorian Heritage Database, Heritage Victoria, retrieved 14 September 2010
  2. ↑ "Historic Gold Mining Sites in Gippsland Mining Division, Gazetteer: State & Regional Significant Sites" (PDF), Victorian Goldfields Project, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, February 1998, archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2011, retrieved 8 March 2011

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