The facade of the RS Exton and Co premises at 333 Ann Street.
Brisbane’s Shrine of Remembrance, dedicated on Armistice Day in 1930.
The Story Bridge, spanning Brisbane River, was built between 1935 and 1940.
The Masonic temple at Barcaldine was constructed in 1901.
My heritage place
In the late 1990s, land subdivision at Yeronga changed the surroundings of heritage-listed Rhyndarra, a two-storey mansion that had variously served as a grand house.
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Old gold presents new treasure prospects
A disused historic gold mine and the town that supported it in the Gulf Savannah have been put on the Queensland heritage register under a new category, 'archaeological place'.
Queensland Heritage Council member, North Queensland archaeologist Gordon Grimwade, said Golden Gate’s listing provided the best of both worlds for heritage and economic interests.
"An archaeological place allows for future development, such as mining, once the place has been thoroughly, scientifically studied," Mr Grimwade said.
"It's a far better option than listing an old mine site as a state heritage place and leaving it to the elements, to rot and rust away."
However Mr Grimwade cautioned amateur archaeologists and scavengers from picking over the site near Croydon.
"Being heritage listed provides protection, and that includes removing what some would call 'junk' and we would call ‘artefacts’ without permission," he said,
"Domestic rubbish – like glass bottles, bricks, ceramics, stove remains, tin and sheet iron – can speak volumes to archaeologists in situ but loses its value when moved from context."
The new heritage listing includes remnants of mine workings, battery, township and cemetery.
"Golden Gate Reef was the most productive on the Croydon goldfield, worked on and off from 1886 until 1915," Mr Grimwade said.
"We know of mining production through records, but can learn more about early gold mining practices and treatment processes, not to forget day-to-day living, from artefacts on or just under the surface.
"Archaeological investigations can answer important research questions about the community’s establishment, development, interaction, trade and its decline.
"The cemetery, for example, tells us about the health and living conditions of the residents as well as providing details about ethnicity, religion and social divisions."
Golden Gate joins Mungana Mine, west of Cairns, and Kuridala, south of Cloncurry, as archaeological places that could one day be mined again.
Date: 19 August 2009