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In the latter part of the nineteenth century, discoveries of gold at a number of locations in Western Australia caused large influxes of prospectors from overseas and interstate, and classic gold rushes. [2] [3] Significant finds included: Halls Creek in 1885, found by Charles Hall and Jack Slattery. Triggered the "Kimberley gold rush". [4]
By contrast with the deprivations of a famine-ravaged Ireland, Australia was enjoying the luxury of numerous Australian gold rushes. [2] One of Flanagan's older brothers, John, set off for Australia in 1858, arriving in Melbourne on the Marco Polo in July. Flanagan followed, docking in Melbourne on the William Kirk in July 1860.
State Batteries in Western Australia; W. Western Australian gold rushes; Westgold Resources This page was last edited on 17 July 2023, at 07:45 (UTC). Text ...
Previously, a situation had existed where the two representatives on the council accorded to Western Australia were divided between the WAFL and the GFA. While attempting to travel to the 1919 meeting of the council in Melbourne, the GFA's representative, T. J. Brett, was delayed by a railway strike which prevent him leaving the state. [9]
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851) had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and ...
The land was put up for sale in 1940. Local officials worked with the U.S. Forest Service to purchase the land and keep it from an interested timber company.
Sometimes West Australian Goldfields, even the goldfields or Eastern Goldfields is a term that has been used to either identify the region surrounding Kalgoorlie-Boulder within the current broader designated region of Goldfields-Esperance in Western Australia. The term has been used in books specifically referring to the Kalgoorlie region. [7]
Patrick Hannan (baptised 26 April 1840 – 4 November 1925) [1] was a gold prospector whose lucrative discovery on 14 June 1893 set off a major gold rush in the area now known as Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia. The resulting goldfield has been mined ever since and is renowned as The Golden Mile, the richest square mile in the world.