The 35-year-old was one of 90 Ballarat Goldfields workers made redundant yesterday.

He worked as a jumbo operator at the Woolshed Gully site and had bought a home in Delacombe, since arriving from the Northern Territory to work for Lihir Gold.

Back at the site yesterday afternoon, he told The Courier it would be his last time he would see Ballarat Goldfields.

He said he was relieved at being let go, after months of uncertainty.

"We were always told (Ballarat Goldfields) would be a place where your kids could one day work," he said of the mine's initial 20-year ambitions.

"There were 500 workers up there and to be among the last ones left, I feel lucky."

But despite this, Mr Hosken will have to reassess his future, with a house still to pay off.

After 10 years of doing fly-in-fly-out mining jobs interstate, he said working in Ballarat meant a place to go home to at night.

He was also living closer to his girlfriend in St Arnaud, where he grew up.

"I don't really know what to do now, I haven't really thought about it," he said.

"It will be a bit tricky, but I'll probably get another job in mining by word of mouth; it's about who you know in the mining game."