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robplum: Alluvial gold was discovered at Livingstone Creek, near Omeo, in 1851 and at Cobungra
River in the Dargo High Plains goldfield in 1852. Major goldfields established during the
early days (from north to south) included Omeo, Dargo High Plains, Dargo, New Rush
Creek, Swifts Creek, Grant, Haunted Stream and Shady Creek, Yahoo Creek, Bullumwaal,
Debtford, Store Creek, Gladstone Creek, and Limestone Creek in the far northeast and the
Woods Point-Walhalla region in the far west of the area. Mining of alluvial gold was
extended with the arrival of low-cost alluvial dredges or floating large-scale processing plants
on pontoons, which were introduced in the 1890s and early 1900s along Livingstone Creek,
and later on Swifts Creek, ending in the early 1920s.