In 1877 the Daily brothers found gold in Tasmania’s beautiful Tamar Valley. Their discovery of gold let to the mining of the famous ‘Tasmania’ reef where gold was extracted from 1877-914 at the Grubb Shaft mine at Beaconsfield.

The mine became Tasmania’s largest, producing 26 tonnes of gold in its 37 year career.

Today, the Grubb Shaft Gold Mine is a museum and home to the largest known Cornish dewatering pumps (1905) as well as around 2000 other mining treasures such as a waterwheel powered 1862 stamp battery, miners cottage, local mineral collection and a moving scale model of underground mine workings to 1914.