Moujakine Well is 11 kilometres north-east of Trayning, adjacent to White Man Rock. There are a number of directional signs to White Man Rock but none that mark the actual entry. The well and rock are on private property (an area of bush on a farm) .

While surveying in the Moujakine area in 1889, Surveyor H.S. King located an unusual quartz pillar on a ridge of quartz in the NW corner of Charles Glass’s property that he termed ‘the White Man’.

After Alex Glass and his mother found a small nugget of gold while they were cleaning out this well early in 1887, the Newcastle and Northam Settlers Association commissioned Bernard Henry Colreavy, a prospector, to examine the area. His party penetrated the country as far as the Yilgarn Hills, a distance of about 320 kilometres *.

The historic well is very close to White Man Rock (in the same vehicle park). The well has been fenced and is reasonable condition, if a little overgrown.

The gold find in the well and subsequent appointment of Colreavy ultimately led to the discovery of the Golden Valley goldfield by Greaves, Payne and Anstey which sparked off the Yilgarn gold rushes.

 

 

• 1902 Year Book, Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Vol II,  Facsimile Edition, Hesperian Press, Carlisle, W.A., 1985, p64