Aaaah - but not to be confused with the battery at Black Snake Creek, near Crooked River (the Crooked River school was there), which was mainly a 1930s battery - the shed is still there, not sure about the equipment. And there was a Black Prince somewhere else - was it Bullumwaal???? Linda At 02:21 PM 30/03/05 +1000, a Robbo wrote: >Not that I'm any sort of an expert, but the only mine with a black >anything in its name that I'm aware of in E. Gipps is the old Black Snake >copper mine near Tubbut - at one stage owned and operated by two brothers >(whose surname escapes me for the moment!) who ran what was for some time >the largest commercial fishing trawler out of Lakes Entrance. This was >back in the late 1950s/early 1960s.