Great Northern Mine Walk
The Great Northern Mine walk starts at the Herberton Mining Museum & Visitor Information Centre carpark situated in Jacks Road Herberton.
This is the first freehold block on the Tablelands and still in its entirety. The walk is 1.0km.
Turn left and walk 50 metres to first junction.
The Great Northern Mine walk starts at the Herberton Mining Museum & Visitor Information Centre carpark situated in Jacks Road Herberton.
This is the first freehold block on the Tablelands and still in its entirety. The walk is 1.0km.
Turn left and walk 50 metres to first junction.
The remains of the caretakers cottage destroyed by bush fire in 2001 can be seen from this signpost. Turn left and walk 80 metres. On the left you will see the Gully Shaft.
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30 Metres on the left hand side you will see remains of a double drum winding winch.
60 metres on you will come to a junction. Turn left.
20 metres on the right you will see the remains of an ore loading ramp.
20 metres on the right you will see the remains of an ore loading ramp.
60 metres further you come to a junction. Turn right.10 metres on are the Eastern Shaft sheds. These buildings have been destroyed twice: once by a boiler explosion in 1908, secondly by cyclone Larry in 2006. Rebuilt in 2007.
One shed houses a Harkness compressor (possibly the only Harkness product surviving in Australia)
and a very early and rare 1878 Marshall portable steam engine in good condition.
31 metres on is the No. 3 (New Gully) shaft building.
This building houses an Ingersoll Rand tandem air compressor, Walkers two cylinder winding engine, Walkers colonial boiler in brick mount which ran the winding gear for the New Gully Shaft.
Past this shed is a 400 foot shaft which joins the Gully Shaft.
Keep walking and you return to the carpark.
Keep walking and you return to the carpark.
