Argyle Spring is a sodium bicarbonate natural mineral water or “soda water” and is high in sulphate with a light, “sweetish” taste.
Argyle spring was more than likely found by alluvial miners in the 1890s. It is located 1.4 km upstream from Wyuna Spring in Argyle Gully. The flow sometimes stops in dry years, which occurred in March 1991 and January 1998.
The 1.4km walk through the bush to get to the spring is well worth it. You will see evidence of where the alluvial gold miners worked the gullies and constructed water races. Races were a channel, an aqueduct, or artificial watercourse for conveying water from a stream, spring or dam to a mine or to alluvial workings. They were cut through soil and rock and were combined with flumes to cross creeks or gullies; they always took the shortest route.
In 1930 two bores were drilled in Argyle Gully, one just 4m east from the current spring and another about 100m up the gully to the north, both have been decommissioned. The current bore was constructed in 2013 and is 52m deep.
