What the gold rush really is.
The Australian gold rush was when the miners found large traces of gold mostly near Bathurst and a few other places. When as it? Well.. the gold rush didn,t really start at a certain time, but the convicts found small gold nuggets decades before the gold , that they kept secret, because if the government found out, they,ll have to send all the gold to the Queen of England. |
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This site is all about the time of the Bathurst Gold rush. To learn more, look at my site. The people. The gold rush was in australia but people came from overseas for gold and luck mainly came from from Europe, America Middle East and mostly China. In Bathursts time of the gold rush there were 80,000 people, but contemporaneously it only has 80 people left to guard the remains of where to old Bathurst town used to be.
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The first official announce of finding gold in the area was actually in Ophir, near Bathurst which was in May 1851, which made a tentative start to the gold rush.
Three months later when the gold rush had many people, there was an announcement of striked gold in Sovereign Hill, Victoria which was close to Ballarat, there gold mins had lost of rich and promising gold but the real gold rush was when there was traces of gold discovered in mt Alexander, which was about 60 km northeast of Ballarat, and near the town of Bendigo.
Three months later when the gold rush had many people, there was an announcement of striked gold in Sovereign Hill, Victoria which was close to Ballarat, there gold mins had lost of rich and promising gold but the real gold rush was when there was traces of gold discovered in mt Alexander, which was about 60 km northeast of Ballarat, and near the town of Bendigo.