This battery which crushed quartz rock to enable the extraction of gold is about 10 minutes from Garden Gully hut. A track branching off the track to the mine leads to it. The battery was fed from the mine by aerial rope way. The battery dates from 1896. Alluvial mining in the gully began in the 1860's but it took quite a while to discover the reef gold.

There was a mining revival in the area during the 1930's "depression years" when a gold subsidy was paid for miners to prospect & rework old areas.

After visiting the battery we used the DOC track to visit the old mine site then spent a couple of hours off track in the head of Garden Gully looking for additional miners tracks that are no longer maintained. As a by product of this search we found four additional adits (tunnel entrances), various relics such as trolley wheels and evidence of logging for mining timber.

You can get to the Moonlight track from the Garden Gully mine site via Point 1074m.