Friday

Fossicking for gold in Australia in the 1800's

WA goldfields
Western Australian Museum ExploreWa GoldfieldsGetting Gold
 
Victorian Gold rush


Fossickers at the creek at Nerrena, Victoria during the gold rush.
 
Goldrush days  Australia
Early Goldrush days in Coolgardie, Western Australia
via The Mining Chronicle
Gold miners outside a bark hut, Queensland, ca. 1870 Two gold miners dressed in working clothes outside a slab bark hut
with mining tools nearby.
 
TIMELINE OF AUSTRALIAN GOLD RUSH ERA
1851: Ballarat and Bendigo, Victoria
1852: Beechworth, Victoria
1858 - 1859: Bright, Omeo, Chiltern,Victoria
1863: Walhalla, Victoria
1872: Palmer River Gold Rush, Palmer River, Queensland
1893: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
1896: Coolgardie, Western Australia
 
 

1 comment:

Stanley said...

Thanks great bllog

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