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This photo shows the Union Hill site (Maldon) in February 2008. The bronze plaque on the right has the following text: UNION HILL GOLD MINE. Gold was first discovered on this site in 1854. By the turn of the century when the first phase of mining ended, some 250,000 ounces of gold had been recovered from this site, mainly from underground workings by numerous individuals, associations and companies. The workings you see before you are as a result of open cut mining between 1988 and 1992 to recover low grade portions of the main reef and surrounding quartz veinlets. In total, 2.5 million tonnes of rock were mined, including 1 million tonnes of ore which was treated at Porcupine Flat (some 3 kilometres away to the east). This yielded 55,000 ounces of gold, valued in excess of $25,000. Alliance Gold Mines NL began operations on this site in 1994 in search of new underground ore resources. A decline with a 3 metre by 3 metre profile has been driven at a downward gradient of 1 in 7 northward from the far end of the open cut to access the quartz reefs below the present hill surface. This viewing platform, funded by Alliance Gold Mines NL, was officially opened by Mr. Mostyn Thompson, Chairman of Commissioners of the Mt Alexander Shire, on 12 December 1995.

An Anthem For

MALDON

by Keith Harper © 1999.

If you love Maldon as I do,
then you'll know why I sing.
I sing out loud
because I'm proud.
Let hills and gullies ring!

Chorus:
Maldon, beautiful Maldon,
this is the town that we love.
Maldon, beautiful Maldon,
built with help from above!

In eighteen fifty-three, when gold
was found here on the ground:
who then could know
the seeds they'd sow
would be a town renowned?

When Easter-time comes 'round again
and I am trav'ling back,
the shining tower
on Tarrangower
will guide me on my track.

Oh, Maldon is a lovely town,
it's steeped in history.
It's rich today
in a dif'rent way
to how it used to be.

I love this country; Australia,
and I love Maldon too.
Until I die
I pledge that I
will always be true blue.