Details Of The Gold Rush Of Australia

By Jack Wagon

A Gold Rush can make an ordinary person a millionaire in just one moment. It can be defined as a time of passionate colonisation of labour into a region where there has been a detection of enormous amounts of gold. Gold rushes happened in'th century in Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Canada, and the United States.

Gold rushes are generally marked with the upbeat, and optimistic feeling of something that is free-for-all. This makes it possible for anyone to become absolutely prosperous instantaneously. The definition given previously is what a gold rush was. A lot of people link gold rushes to the Californian gold rush, although it is a fact that the Australian gold rush remains to date as the richest gold rush of the world.

In'51, the Australian gold rushes began, when Edward Hammond Hargraves went to Lewis Pond Creek with his guide John Lister. When they filled and washed a few pans, and then they got to know that the pots had gold. This information was spread over the world, and then during the next few weeks, large number of people from every where were seen digging, as if their living depended on this.

Hargraves did not get an immense luck from gold. However, Hargraves named the Bathurst goldfield Ophir. Afterwards, James Tom, who was a planter, stated that it was not Hargraves, but actually he, himself who discovered the gold. Even then, the decision of the government went in opposition to him. Hargraves was known as the Crown Land Commissioner of New South Wales. William Tom, and John Lister detained one more enquiry, just earlier than he died in'99, and then it came in support of the maintenance alleges that were made. (According to brother of James Tom)

The first discovery was in New South Wales, followed by Clunes, Ballarat, Buninyong, and then Bendigo Creek. Soon gold was found in all of the other Australian states. The first gold license was issued in Victoria on'51. Varying amounts of licenses were issued through out the country.

The Victorian gold rush, after the Californian gold rush was the most immense amongst gold rushes of Australia. The gold rush had a massive significance, since it proved to be a turning point in monetary and political growth of Melbourne, and Victoria. During'51, more or less 250,000 ounces of gold was found.

The gold rushes of Australia gave a lot of support in the development of the main areas of the city. It was a time when most of the telephone lines, and railway lines were constructed. The huge population of people gave rise to multi-culture, and racism

In'52, more or less 370,000 people entered into the state, and resulted in the boost of economy. In'50s, approximately one-third quantity of the gold was discovered from Victoria. In two years, the population of the area increased from 77,000 to roughly 540,000. An interesting truth that should be mentioned here is that the number of immigrants that came into the area was far more than the entire number of criminals that entered in past 70 years. Hence, the number of people in the area rose three times between'51 and'71. - 31869

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