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Fossickers in the Nerrena Creek outside Ballarat. The Victorian Gold Discovery Committee wrote in 1854: The discovery of the Victorian Goldfields has converted a remote dependency into a country of worldwide fame; it has attracted a population, extraordinary in number, with unprecedented rapidity; it has enhanced the value of property to an enormous extent; it has made this the richest country ...
The goldfields region is more strongly linked to the impact of the Victorian Gold Rush than the discovery of gold in Victoria. As a result of the gold rush, the region contains many old buildings, including celebrated examples of Victorian architecture, some of which are heritage listed, while others have fallen into disrepair and become derelict.
The Victorian-goldfields to Adelaide route was notable for the distance and amount of gold carried, almost a quarter of all gold, 1,520,578 ounces (43,110 kg), transported within Victoria during the gold rush (1851-1865). [8] The Gold Escort route started in the Bendigo area and then went west across the Pyrenees to the small settlement of Horsham.
Tales of prospecting for gold may conjure up images of treasure hunters victoriously uncovering massive rocks of the valuable metal. In reality, prospecting was hard, back-breaking work, with days ...
Gold Fields Kambalda: Goldfields-Esperance: 428,300 (2008–09) Sunrise Dam Gold Mine: AngloGold Ashanti: Laverton: Goldfields-Esperance: 401,000 (2009) Telfer Mine: Newcrest Mining Limited: Telfer: Pilbara: 688,909 (2009–10) Tropicana Gold Mine: AngloGold Ashanti (70%) Regis Resources (30%) Woop Woop Great Victoria Desert: 310,000 (2023 ...
It was built in 1884 (completed on 29 May 1884), during the Victorian gold rush, as part of the 4 km headrace from the Howqua River to a 63-foot waterwheel at the Howqua United gold treatment works below Sheepyard Flat. [1] [2] The site is part of the Howqua Hills Historic Area [2] and is registered in the Victorian Heritage Register. [3]
Mining activity along Larni Barramal Yaluk (Jim Crow Creek) was photographed in 1857/8 on wetplate collodion by Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery for their Sun Pictures of Victoria, [15] a copy of which is preserved in the State Library of Victoria., [16] and traces in the landscape and relics of gold mining activity can still be seen there ...
Clunes is a town in Victoria, Australia, 36 kilometres north of Ballarat, in the Shire of Hepburn.At the 2016 census it had a population of 1,728. [1]Clunes is best known as the site of Victoria's first registered gold discovery in 1850 and its first gold strike in 1873, which lasted three months.