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In 1851 gold was discovered in NSW australia by someone named Edward Hargraves.
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Thomas Hiscock was rewarded £1,000 for finding gold in Buninyong, this discovery was soon explained. He first found gold on the 8 of August 1851
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on the Tamar River was a shaft that would produce £77,2671 worth of gold, by 1905, since 1914 the mine has lost its value of gold
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Thomas Brady and Thomas Smith discovered gold in South Australia, Adelaide Teetulpa in 1866. Teetulpa is north of Adelaide and the conditions were hot and dusty for the all the miners.
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James Nash has discovered gold in gympie, it took at least 2 months until other people have heard this and sent 25,000 miners to track this area, hoping to find gold. In Queensland more places are found to have gold such as Palmer River, this was a dangerous place to mine due to the hot and humid weather and the dangerous animals that live near there.
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in 1872 while digging from adelaide to darwin they accidently discovered gold there in the progress triggering more gold rushes in Australia, but gold was originally found in that area around 1895
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In 1893, Addy Hannon, Tom Flanagan and Dan Shea found gold 40 km east of Coolgardie. A town was built around the area of the discovery and this discovery of gold is why that town was made