Warrandyte State Park Prospecting Area

Bushland strung along the Yarra River northeast of Melbourne marks where Victoria's gold story began: payable gold was found at Andersons Creek in 1851, and the colony's first mining licences followed. The state park now protects wooded hills, river flats and relics of the diggings, from Pound Bend to the old workings at Fourth Hill. Carrying a Miner's Right, prospectors may pan and sluice with hand tools in the beds of Andersons, Stoney and Jumping creeks, working the same gravels that drew the first diggers.