Eldorado Dredge Holes

Age of Giants

Was I expecting this not too far from the Hume Freeway... certainly not. The town of Eldorado is a place of transcendent beauty. The town is only about 20 kilometres from Wangaratta and I had never vi...

History preserved

Fascinating historic dredge preserved for tourists to explore and understand how gold and tin mining took place in the area. A huge dredge operating from 1936 to 1954 producing 70,000 ounces of gold a...

Impressive

The El Dorado dredge is an impressive piece of heritage listed historical machinery that you can get up close to. Plenty of historical information at the site: well worth the detour to get here: take...

Massive & Historically Interesting

The dredge operated from 1934 until 1954 extracting tin and 2.2 tons of gold valued today around $60 M.It is a massive steel structure weigh over 2,000 tons. It is well signed and open for visitors b...

Needs to be seen to be believed

Explanatory signage is excellent. This 2,100 tonne machine was more of a floating factory than dredge. It was maneuvered by a series of winch-lines attached to the 'shore'. Raw material in from the...