Historical Images : Gold Rush Era - Victoria Australia
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Published 2021-06-29
(A link to help you find GOLD today) earthresources.vic.gov.au/geology-exploration/mine…
In the 1850s gold discoveries in Victoria, in Beechworth, Castlemaine, Daylesford, Ballarat and Bendigo sparked gold rushes similar to the California Gold Rush. At its peak, some two tonnes of gold per week flowed into the Treasury Building in Melbourne.
With the exception of the more extensive fields of California, for a number of years the gold output from Victoria was greater than in any other country in the world. Victoria's greatest yield for one year was in 1856, when 3,053,744 troy ounces (94,982 kg) of gold were extracted from the diggings. From 1851 to 1896 the Victorian Mines Department reported that a total of 61,034,682 oz (1,898,391 kg) of gold was mined in Victoria.
The rushes left Victorian architecture in towns in the Goldfields region such as Maldon, Beechworth, Clunes, Heathcote, Maryborough, Daylesford, Stawell, Beaufort, Creswick, St Arnaud, Dunolly, Inglewood, Wedderburn and Buninyong whose economy has differing emphases on home working, tourism, farming, modern industrial and retired sectors. With the exception of Ballarat and Bendigo, many of these towns were substantially larger than they are today. Most populations moved to other districts when gold played out in a given locality.[8] At the other end of the spectrum ghost towns, such as Walhalla, Mafeking and Steiglitz exist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_gold_rush
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Photographic images: State Library - Victoria
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All Comments (14)
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Wow great photos my 2 great grandmother 6 of her babies died on the Castlemaine gold fields in the 1850s I can’t imagine that life back then must have been so hard
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Fabulous photos...have family from Walhalla and further out at Hill End, Tangil and Russells Creek before they did Blue Rock lake.
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There's something eerily charming about these wonderful images - the backbreaking work, gamble and living conditions many endured, just to find some gold. I wonder how many wasted their lives away to discover that they we the unlucky ones.
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Some awesome old photos in there, cheers.
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A lot of those places look so different from the pics now, can still go around and find gold these days but with the bonus of an air conditioned car to get us there, chilled drinks to quench the thirst and a detector to tell us where to dig
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Thanks for sharing
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Great photos. I'm at Cassilis Victoria and I'm sure there are more photos from up this way that you could include.
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Fantastic photos. Thanks for showing . But no Pics of Blackwood diggings.
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That's what we want today, another gold rush!
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Such indiscriminate destruction of nature, one can only hope that nature has recovered now.
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Horrible Horrible "music"
