Rocky Bluff Battery and Township is a heritage-listed former mining town at Watsonville, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia.

Extensive leases were acquired over the area by a South Australian company, the North Queensland Tin Mining Corporation, in 1900.

Instead of proceeding to Watsonville it was decided to construct a branch line 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) to Rocky Bluff on the Walsh River and this opened on 18 November 1902.

Named "Jumping Moses", the 20 head battery, Huntington mill and Merton furnace were perched high on the steep hillside above the river.

The general manager, Charles S. Pasley, reported that the battery could only work at half power until the boiler was replaced by a larger one; £600 was to be spent on two frue vanners, two wheeler pans and a small four compartment jigger.

New rolls were put in between rockbreaker and battery, and a travelling "grizzly" to take the crushed ore with the roughs taken out on a moving elevator.

[1] Because of its steep site the township had the reputation that no wheeled vehicle, cart, wagon or buggy ever got into its main streets.

The battery and general work at Rocky Bluffs, the terminus of the Stannary Hills tramline, gave employment to about 50 men in 1905.

[1] The place comprises a number of components including the formation and terminus structures of the Stannary Hills - Rocky Bluff tramway: a ropeway formation descending from the tramway to the battery including concrete brake mounts; and foundations of the battery including terraced benches and high retaining walls descending steeply to the Walsh River; an intact stone weir across the river; and two township areas, one on the river flat and the other in the gully below the battery.

Three circular concrete rendered brick buddle bases for the treatment of slimes are located on a lower level.

[1] Rocky Bluff Battery and Township was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 December 2002 having satisfied the following criteria.

The Rocky Bluff battery, tramway and township are significant as an expression of early integrated development in North Queensland's mining industry.

Due to difficult access the place retains comprehensive evidence of the layout of a range of representative late 19th century haulage, concentrating and settlement features.