Gympie Gold Field: battery & other significant gold processing locations

Following is a list of locations of where gold processing batteries once stood. Note that all locations are provisional and approximate only.

Batteries have been marked on Google Earth using the following references:

Map showing battery locations as listed by Ferguson & Brown 2009

Site / descriptionLatitudeLongitude
Pioneer Machine-26.199161152.664340
Threldkeld’s Machine-26.195136152.659142
Victoria Mill-26.205039152.670627
Enterprise CM-26.204730152.670024
Lady Mary = United Machine-26.201014152.666624
Central CM-26.206205152.672177
Gympie or Big Mill = Gympie Crushing Battery = The Qld Quartz Crushing Company-26.204289152.677090
Victoria; Small Mill or Old Victoria-26.207019152.678634
New Zealand PC ‘Old Maori’-26.193572152.670878
Perseverance (approx)-26.198555152.666637
Golden Crown = Old Crown-26.197472152.672421
Phoenix PC = Phoenix-26.200257152.674034
1 North Phoenix-26.197684152.674045
2&3 South Smithfield = Eastern 3 South Smithfield-26.202816152.679007
Ellen Harkins = Old Ellen Harkins-26.203945152.672264
2 Great Eastern = 2 Great Eastern-26.214521152.682476
South Glanmire & Monkland-26.213731152.678743
Scottish Gympie = Scottish Gympie No.1-26.215147152.688035
1N Glanmire = 1 North Glanmire-26.208812152.679960
2 South Great Eastern Battery-26.213376152.684881
Homeward Bound & Hibernia-26.171450152.647001
Phoenix, 4 N-26.189864152.675627
New Gympie Gold-26.177092152.650572
New Enterprise-26.146991152.721331

Additional sites of gold ore processing