INTERESTING FACTS
- An unusual habit of the goldminers was to wake all the others up in an unusual and irregular way. The first digger to rise would crow like a rooster to wake everyone else up to a hard day of digging.
- Gold was found in all of Australia's states and territories, apart from South Australia
- In 1852, NSW produced 26.4 tonnes of the world's output
- In the 1850s, Victoria produced one third of the world's gold finds
- The Chinese diggers had a separate part of the camp to themselves in the Bathurst goldfields, due to racism
AUSTRALIAN GOLD RUSH VIDEO
Below is a video that explains the Australian gold rush, focusing mainly on Ballarat, in Victoria.
By Ashley Oliver-Sjahry
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