Burra Creek Gold Mining

Downstream from the Henry Angel Trackhead there’s evidence of some of the major mining operations on Burra Creek that occurred from the 1860’s through to the 1930’s. “The Tunnel” is a highlight in this section.

A rock bar across the valley floor had to be breached so an upstream swamp holding loose gold could be sluiced. There are great piles of broken stone as well as a channel cut through the rock. This work was done by Nathan Giles Gitchell who had mastered the use of dynamite. Gitchell cut a 70m tunnel through a hill and the tunnel subsequently became the course of the creek. Remnants of water races can still be seen along the creek and several plaques are in the area describing the history.