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.

该项目将河流视为文化文物，旨在评估历史上的金矿开采如何塑造了维多利亚州历史悠久的采矿业对全州水道的广泛而持久的变化。该项目计划整合景观考古学的方法。 、自然地理学、地貌学和环境化学，以识别和绘制变化范围，包括沉积、侵蚀和化学污染的增加。该项目计划展示历史采矿如何继续影响维多利亚化学流的物理过程，并加深对这些变化的了解。风景项目成果可能会改善流域和水库管理的情况，并扭转人们对河流破坏原因的普遍印象。