The Red Hill Mine at

Sovereign Hill Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attrac ...

is a re-creation of a former mine of the same name at Bakery Hill, Ballarat. The 69kg

Welcome Nugget The Welcome Nugget was a large gold nugget, weighing 2,217 troy ounces 16 pennyweight. (68.98 kg), that was discovered by a group of twenty-two Cornish miners at the Red Hill Mining Company site at Bakery Hill (near the present intersec ...

was found at the original Red Hill Mine in 1858. The Sovereign Hill re-creation features tours led by a voice that trails the visitor through the mine. It is 76 steps down and roughly 100 steps across.

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