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An eight-metre miner figure outside Gold Rush Mini Golf, created as a tribute to the prospectors of the Victorian gold rush.
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The Big Miner
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Site-level location · 37.5641° S, 143.9369° E
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The story
An eight-metre prospector stands outside a mini golf course on the edge of Ballarat, and the subject is entirely earned.
The Big Miner is a tribute to the diggers of the Victorian gold rush, and Warrenheip sits on the outskirts of the town where that rush produced its most consequential moment. The Eureka Stockade of December 1854 – miners rebelling against licence fees and the administration of the goldfields – is one of the founding episodes of Australian political history, and Ballarat has been arguing about what it means ever since.
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Gold Rush Mini Golf currently identifies itself as the home of the Big Miner and remains an operating visitor attraction.
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