Mafeking is a locality in the Australian state of Victoria, located south-east of Grampians National Park and 20 km (12 mi) from the nearest town of Willaura.

In 1897 two splitters named Arthur and David Schache found gold in a gully in the granite area, and told the brothers Philip and Frank Emmett, who were on a shooting trip.

On 24th June 1900 they registered a claim, and within a fortnight at the consequent rush, gold had been found in ten gullies.

The original gravels vary from 30 to 70 feet (9.1 to 21.3 m) in thickness, and values are confined to the lower layers.

"[3] The small goldfield yielded 1t of gold from alluvial deposits and from quartz veinlets in a weathered I-type[4] granite pluton of Devonian age.