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  2. Western Australian gold rushes - Wikipedia

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    Prospector Charles Hall and others found alluvial gold in the eastern Kimberly region in 1885. The find created the first gold rush in Western Australia. In terms of gold yield, the rush was not particularly successful, but was the first significant find in the northern and western parts of Australia. It was nearly 40 years after the Victorian ...

  3. Australian gold rushes - Wikipedia

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    The greatest movement of people in Australia's history was in the period 1851 to 1861 during the gold rushes to the Eastern states when the recorded population of Australia rose by 730,484 from 437,665 in 1851 to 1,168,149 in 1861, [32] as against an increase of 20% of this amount for Western Australia in the period 1891 to 1901, a 137,834 ...

  4. 1851 in Australia - Wikipedia

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    1851 in Australia was a watershed year. It saw the start of the Australian gold rushes with significant gold discoveries in both New South Wales (near Bathurst) in February and Victoria in July. [1] As a result of the Gold Rushes, the European population of Victoria increased from 97,489 in 1851 to 538,628 in 1861 and the population of NSW ...

  5. Mining in Australia - Wikipedia

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    By the middle of the 1850s, 40% of the world's gold was produced in Australia. [30] Australia's population changed dramatically as a result of the gold rushes: in 1851 the population was 437,655 and a decade later it was 1,151,957; the rapid growth was predominantly a result of the "new chums" (recent immigrants from the United Kingdom and ...

  6. New South Wales gold rush - Wikipedia

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    Holtermann with 235 kg gold specimen from Hill End, NSW. New South Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880. This period in the history of New South Wales resulted in a rapid growth in the population and significant boost to the economy of the colony of New South Wales

  7. Victorian gold rush - Wikipedia

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    The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony and an influx of population growth and financial capital for Melbourne , which was dubbed " Marvellous Melbourne " as a result of the procurement of wealth.

  8. Ophir, New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    William Tom's father (Parson Tom) suggested the name 'Ophir', after a region in the Old Testament noted for its fine gold. [2] There was a gold rush to the area in 1851 and 1852. The village of Ophir was laid out in 1851 by Major Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, its first lots were sold in 1852. Reef gold was discovered in 1868 by Joseph ...

  9. Canoona - Wikipedia

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    Canoona is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. [2] It was the site of the first North Australian gold rush. [ 3 ] In the 2021 census , Canoona had a population of 90 people.