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New South Wales
Edward Hargraves was the first to discover gold in NSW, Australia. He found, with John Lister, flecks of gold under the waters of Lewis Pond Creek and Turon River. After their discovery was revealed, many prospectors and thousands of miners were rushing to Lewis and Turon to find their own gold.
Travellers and miners had gone to extreme extents where after all their panning and digging, the created shafts were up to 275m deep, a chute of gold weighing 315kg. -
Victoria's Reward
While prospectors and miners were continuing to travel to NSW, Governor La Trobe had offered a reward to whoever was able to find gold in the state of Victoria. This reward was to stop everyone from going to NSW befores it's crowded.
Many miners started to go over to Victoria to start mining.
Gold was soon found in the Central Highlands, and now Victoria is the richest goldfield state with being responsible of 40% of the world's gold today. -
Tasmania
Tasmania had soon also have its first discovery of gold on its land. Its first discovery was on the Eastern Coast in Fingal.
On the Tamar River in Beconsfield, there'd been a mine that had produced 77,2671 euros worth of gold by 1905 in Tasmania, however by the 1914, the mine was no longer active and is now closed off. -
South Australia
In 1851, The South Australian Government had offered a reward of 1,000 euros to the first person who'd be able to find a decent amount of gold.
Teetupla, Thomas Brady and Thomas Smith discovered gold in 1866 on the north of Adelaide. -
Queensland
During the 1850s, 8000 Victorians alone rushed to Port Curtis to find gold in Queensland. However the stakes were high while the chance was low of them finding gold.
Gympie 1867, John Nash had discovered gold. The news didn't take long to spread. 2 months later, 25,000 miners had relocated the area where John had found gold.
It was a small speck of hope to finding gold that may've been nearby. The process has required a lot of mining and digging in Gympie, which only lasted till 1925. -
Northern Territory
In 1871 Pine Creek, the construction building of a telegraphy line between Alice Springs and Darwin, the workers had found gold by accident.
A great deal to where the workers had quit their job insearch for gold was on the line of where they first found gold hidden at Pine Creek. -
Western Australia
Western Australia was the last of Australia's states/territories to join the Gold Rush. However, the land of Western Australia was proved to had been the richest. In 1892, Arthur Bayley and Williams Flat found gold near a waterhole in Coolgardie.
The discovery of that gold near the waterhole was the reason a town had started in Coolgardie. Gold is still being found and mined today.