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Edward hargraves was the first person to discover gold with John lister at bathurst in 1851.
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Gold was also found in the central highlands in Victoria
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Thomas Brady and Thomas Smith discovered gold
in Teetulpa in 1866. Teetulpa is north of Adelaide
and the conditions were hot and dusty for the
miners. -
In 1867 John Nash discovered gold in Gympie
didn’t take long for this news to get around and 2
months later 25,000 miners had relocated to
Gympie in the hope of finding gold. -
In 1871 construction workers building an
overland telegraphy line between Alice Springs and
Darwin found gold by accident. -
On the Tamar River is the deep shaft Beaconsfield
mine. -
Western Australia was actually the last state or
territory to join the gold rush, however it proved to
be the richest, found by Arthur Bayley and Williams Flat near a water hole in coolgardie.