An Australian man using a budget metal detector has hit the score of a lifetime – a giant gold nugget worth $160,000. The man, who did not want to be identified, made the life-changing discovery in the southern state of Victoria, the world's largest gold nugget was discovered in 1869...
It was called the Welcome Stranger and was found in 1869 in STRANGER DISCOVERED Moliagul, Victoria.1869After that we went to a river. It was so cold that we had to break the ice to look for gold. A few kids found some very sma!! pieces of gold. We AUSTRALIA wondered if the ...
In 1852 Victoria was in the peak of the gold rush and an estimated 100,000 people arrived in Australia, many of whom were Chinese. The Chinese influence on the gold rush towns of Ballarat and Bendigo is still seen in some of the architecture. Speaking of Thunderclaps… Charters Towers, t...
Once, tens of thousands came here from around the world to dig up the earth, fevered in their search for gold that would change their luck. While the gold that was discovered here over 150 years ago has mostly gone, its legacy remains for you to experience. Walk among gold rush towns ...
Gold rushes: 1853 to 1877 Large numbers of Chinese people were working on the Victorian goldfields and fewer on the smaller NSW fields in the mid 1850s, when major gold finds in NSW and the passing of more restrictive anti-Chinese legislation in Victoria resulted in thousands of miners ...
In New Zealand, gold was first discovered in the 1830s by whalers, convicts and ship deserters living on Beesons Island (now Whanganui Island), near the entrance to Coromandel Harbour, but it was the 1856 finds in Aorere Valley, Golden Bay, that sparked the first big rush. This was foll...
For decades, the editors of Condé Nast Traveller have been compiling this annual compendium of hotels we’ve discovered, or fallen in love with all over again. We highlight them not only for their beauty, comfort, or impeccable service, but also because we’ve developed deeply emotional relat...
This type of coin is known in the eastern part of the Byzantine Empire, but this is the first time it was discovered in the ancient Land of Israel. One side of the coin bares the portrait of the emperor, and the other side shows the figure of Victoria, the Roman victory goddess, who...
Find out what was involved in unearthing the 929kg of gold that was discovered at Central Deborah Gold Mine, witness traditional mining equipment in action and see gold in its natural state! Check In — / — / — Check Out — / — / — Guests 1 room, 2 adults, 0 ch...
The RC Gold Property is located within the Tombstone Gold Belt (TGB) which is host to two producing mines, Kinross's Fort Knox Mine in Alaska and Victoria Gold's Eagle Mine in Yukon located approximately 50 kilometres east of RC Gold. The TGB has produced several significan...