The hobbyist prospector, who chose to remain anonymous, was searching in Victoria's famous golden triangle, the world's richest goldfield, when he came across what he thought was an "old horseshoe." It wasn't until he dug deeper that the prospector realized he had unearthed a huge nugget...
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...
South of the equator in Australia, the discovery of gold was instrumental in the development of Australia’s fledgling colonies in the second half of the nineteenth century, with major gold discoveries in Victoria and New South Wales in 1851 precipitating gold mania similar to that witnessed in ...
Discovery of a goldfield is a rare and difficult event, which contrasts with the normal outcome of exploration that is non-discovery. As there are many gold provinces globally and numerous discoveries annually, the recent and historical records of success are a great source of ideas to learn ...
Gold mining commenced in 1851, declined dramatically around 1914, and has not increased significantly since. The Palaeozoic succession of Victoria is part of an extensive fold belt along much of eastern Australia (i.e. the Tasman Orogenic Belt). In Victoria, the succession is dominated by ...
The takeover of the majority of the Australian gold industry by the world's biggest producers has had a devastating effect on the level of exploration in much of Australia. But Victoria, with its rich history of major gold fields and outstanding potential for major new discoveries is attracting...
has learned to read and write, he should be carried through This marvellously rapid rise of the colony is mainly the whole range of physical science in a systematic to be ascribed to the discovery of gold there in I 85 I. m~nner. The fundamental truths of chemistry and physics Never had...
This article uses the issue of wife desertion in gold鈥恟ush Victoria to explore the ways in which women's welfare needs were often eclipsed by reform programmes centred on the male breadwinner. It argues that deserted wives were powerful cultural symbols of the dislocations of gold discovery, ...
ECR Minerals has announced plans to start drilling programmes at its gold projects located in the Australian territory of Victoria.
Victoria was changed forever in the early 1850s by the discovery of gold in the center of the state. News of fantastic gold deposits caused immigrants from every corner of the world to pour into Victoria to seek their fortunes as "diggers"—a name that has become synonymous with Australians...