Rivers of Gold: The Legacy of Historical Gold Mining for Victoria's Rivers

黄金河流：维多利亚河流历史金矿开采的遗产

• 批准号: DP160100799
• 负责人: Prof Susan Lawrence
• 金额: $ 45.72万
• 依托单位: La Trobe University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-09-30 至 2023-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160100799
• 关键词: Rivers; Gold; Legacy; Historical; Mining

By considering rivers as cultural artefacts, this project aims to evaluate how historical gold mining has shaped river systems in Victoria. Victoria’s historic mining industry led to extensive and long-lasting change to waterways across the state. The project plans to integrate approaches from landscape archaeology, physical geography, geomorphology and environmental chemistry to identify and map the extent of changes, including increased sedimentation, erosion, and chemical contamination. The project plans to demonstrate how historical mining continues to influence chemical and physical processes in Victorian streams and to develop understanding of the landscapes experienced by Victorians at the height of the mining boom. Project outcomes may provide improved context for catchment and reservoir management and counter prevailing impressions about causes of observed damage to rivers.

通过将河流视为文化伪像，该项目旨在评估历史金矿开采如何塑造维多利亚州的河流系统。维多利亚州的历史悠久的采矿业导致全州的水道发生了广泛而持久的变化。该项目计划将景观考古学，物理地理，地貌和环境化学的方法整合在一起，以识别和绘制变化的程度，包括增加沉积，侵蚀和化学污染。该项目计划展示历史采矿如何继续影响维多利亚河流中的化学和物理过程，并发展对采矿繁荣时期维多利亚时代人所经历的景观的理解。项目成果可能会提供改进的集水区和水库管理的背景，并就观察到的河流损害的原因进行反对印象。