Eldorado, Victoria
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Eldorado, or El Dorado, is a small town in the north-east of Victoria, Australia. Gold was found in the area during the 1850s, the source of the town's name (after the legend of El Dorado). The town's population declined sharply after the area ceased to yield gold. The remains of an old dredge can still be seen today. This is a large steel dredge which was designed and built by Thompson's Engineering for the Cocks Eldorado Gold Dredging Company in 1935-36. By the time it was decommissioned it had dredged 30 million cubic metres from the river flats of the Eldorado Plain. It has 110 digging buckets each of which was capable of digging and lifting 0.3 cubic metres of soil.
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