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The first flake gold was found by a person called James McBrien.
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When the geologist Paul de Strzelecki found the gold near the blue mountains. The governor of NSW did not want people to know about this so he told Paul de Strzelecki not put his finding in his Strzelecki report.(a track report by Paul de Strzelecki)
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In this time span, there were many finds of gold but the governor did not want people to know this as he thought this would bring people away from the towns and leave them almost abandoned.
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When Edward Hargraves found this piece of gold the gold rush started to pick up speed.
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The Gold Rush has begun!! Also after just one day of the gold rush starting there was 300 people there.
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This was when the Australian colonial government started to make miners buy licences to mine which also caused the Eureka Stockade later on.
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Eureka stockade was where miners burnt their licenses as they thought that they had to pay to mine was unfair. This also stopped the first gold rush.
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The first Royal Mint (which was in Sydney) outside of England meant that more money could be made to make Australia have more money adding on to the gold from Australia.
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The first time gold was found in Queensland.
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The nugget was only found a few centimetres under the ground near Dunolly, Victoria. The nugget was found by John Deason the nugget weighed 72.02kg but was melted down to a few gold ingots for the England bank. Its name was the "welcome stranger nugget".
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The first time gold was found in South Australia.
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The piece of metal was a mix of gold and slate and weighed at an outstanding 235kg.
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The first time gold was found in Western Australia
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The last gold field discovered in Australia was in Kalgoorlie. The gold field was also one of the best gold fields for miners.
