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Gold found on the river bed of fish river
The first flake gold was found by a person called James McBrien. -
Gold found by Paul de Strzelecki
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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lots of flakes of gold found
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. -
Edward Hargraves found a grain of gold
When Edward Hargraves found this piece of gold the gold rush started to pick up speed. -
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First gold rush in Australia
The Gold Rush has begun!! Also after just one day of the gold rush starting there was 300 people there. -
Gold licences started to be used
This was when the Australian colonial government started to make miners buy licences to mine which also caused the Eureka Stockade later on. -
Eureka stockade
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. -
First Royal mint outside of England
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. -
Gold found in Queensland
The first time gold was found in Queensland. -
The biggest gold nugget found
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". -
Gold found in South Australia
The first time gold was found in South Australia. -
Largest piece of gold found at hills end, NSW
The piece of metal was a mix of gold and slate and weighed at an outstanding 235kg. -
Gold found in Western Australia
The first time gold was found in Western Australia -
Last gold field discovered
The last gold field discovered in Australia was in Kalgoorlie. The gold field was also one of the best gold fields for miners.
