Berringa, Victoria

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Berringa
Victoria

Birthday Mine, First Stope 200 ft level
Population: 259[1]
Postcode: 3351
Elevation: 504 m (1,654 ft)
Location:
LGA: Golden Plains Shire
State District: Ripon
Federal Division: Corangamite
Mean Max Temp Mean Min Temp Rainfall
16.9 °C
62 °F		 7.7 °C
46 °F		 705.4 mm
27.8 in

Berringa is a small township in west-central Victoria, Australia. It is situated in Golden Plains Shire, about 43km southwest of Ballarat.

The township and surrounding rural community are located on the southern extremity of a range of Silurian slate and sandstone rock. The area was a centre of intensive gold mining in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The township was known as Kangaroo between 1880 and 1900. Gold has been mined at Berringa since the 1850s, with the main period of production being from 1898 to 1917, during which time about 280,000 ounces of gold were extracted from five major mines and several other, smaller operations. Mining continued after World War I on a lesser scale until the area was abandoned in the 1950s.

Ballarat Goldfields NL, through its subsidiary, Berringa Resources Pty. Ltd., still conducts exploration operations at Berringa.

Gold mining had a direct effect on Berringa's population, which increased from 150 in 1899 to a peak of about 4000 in 1908. By 1922, with the gold mining boom over, the population had fallen to about 100. As of the 2006 census, Berringa and the surrounding area had a population of 259.[1] The Berringa district is showing a modest population revival with the tree change phenomenon. The district was the site of a significant bushfire in February 1995.


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  1. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Berringa (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
  • Menhennet, Marion Joy. 1987. The History of Berringa. Australian Print Group, Maryborough, Victoria. ISBN 0-7316-0076-2
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