Gold 5

discovery of gold

By ronin
  • Period: to

    gold rush

  • ophir

    this is the place were edward Hargraves claims were he found gold
  • bathurst

    gold was found in Bathurst shortly after other discoverys
  • bendigo

    Henry Frenchmen was the one that sparked the gold rush to bendigo
  • eaglehawk

    the news of gold at eaglehawk whipstick and myers flat quikly emptied the beechworth diggings
  • palmer river

  • onkaparinga

  • robe

  • ararat

  • lambing flats

    at lambing flats the chinese were attacked, killed buried alive and had thier ponytails cut off by the europeans
  • gympie

    james nash was the first to discover gold in gympie
  • charters tower

  • darwin

  • beaconsville

    some belive that gold was discovered in beaconsville in 1847 but it was actualy in 1869
  • kalgoorlie

    Patrick Hannon found gold here on june 10th 1892
  • larkinville

    the second largest gold nugget in australia was found here