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Summerhill Creek is where Edward Hargraves claims he was the first to dicover gold in Australia New South Whales. He later named where he found gold Ophir.
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Two women withj there skirts hitched up knee deep in clay filling cans with gold.
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James reagon and John Dunlop camed north of Bunininyoung on a bend of a creek the Aboriginies called Balla Rat.
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The announcement in the Arges newspaper in the discovery of gold at Mt Alexander made the biggest rush to any Australian gold fields.
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Gold was dicovered in Bathust after the first dicovery at Summerhill Creek.
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BeechWorth became the center of gold digging in the north-east Victoria after gold was dicovered on David Reids sheep farm.
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The Colonial Secretary and several Mountain police watched as W.Chapman panned for gold at Onkaparinga.
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Robe was not the site of any gold dicovery but a port for thousand of Chinese to land.
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Lambing Flats is the scene of a bruital race riot in 1861. Alot of chinese minners were killed by the Euapeons because they where jelous. Lambing Flats is now called Young.
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Some believe gold was first dicovered in Beaconfield b1847 but it wasnt untill 1869 that gold was panned.
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Aboriginal stockman Jupiter was looking for a stray horse when he spotted gold nuggets on the Burdekin River flats on Christmas day.
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gold was dicovered in the Northern Territory as early as 1865 but the rush to Darwin wasnt untill 1871
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McKinely first dicovered gold on the Ironstone Mountain (Mount Morghan).
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Wellesly Bayley rode into the town of the Southern Cross in 1892 with 554 ounses of gold from Coolgardie.
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Irishman Patrick Hannan found gold in Kalgoorlie on June 10 1893.
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The largest pice of reef gold was found underneath the Star of Hope mine in Hill End.
