VictoriaVictoria experienced a surge of migration after the discovery of gold in 1851. I explore the social and geographic background of migrants lured to the colony by opportunities opened up by gold mining. When alluvial gold was exhausted, the skills of migrants enabled them to exploit the ...
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 ...
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...
The Victorian Gold Discovery Committee wrote in 1854: The discovery of the Victorian Goldfields has converted a remote dependency into a country of world wide fame; it has attracted a population, extraordinary in number, with unprecedented rapidity; it has enhanced the value of property to an eno...
By then, Victoria’s inhabitants had swollen to a million, a tenfold elevate since the discovery of gold at Bendigo, Ballarat and any other place in 1851. It utterly transformed the rising colony. “Bendigo grew to radically change concept to be one of many richest goldfields in the enviorn...
(80 km) east of present-daySacramento. On January 24 his carpenter,James W. Marshall, found flakes of gold in a streambed. Sutter and Marshall agreed to become partners and tried to keep their find a secret. News of the discovery, however, soon spread, and they were besieged by ...
#154. The first Australian gold rush occurred in Victoria in 1851. Many Australian veterans of the 1849 California Gold Rush used their expertise to find gold back home. #155. Australian prospector Edward Hammond Hargraves boasted that he would find gold inside a week when he returned from the...
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 ...
in Europe were the mines ofSaxonyandAustria. The era of gold production that followed the Spanish discovery of the Americas in the 1490s was probably the greatest the world hadwitnessedto that time. The exploitation of mines byslave labourand the looting of palaces, temples, and graves in ...
This mine was called the Victoria; several of the Company’s scrip are preserved in the Public Library; but some two years previous to this a man named Edward Proven had found gold in the same neighbourhood. Most Governments nowadays encourage in every possible way the discovery of gold-...