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Edward Hammond Hargraves (7 October 1816 – 29 October 1891) was a gold prospector who claimed to have found gold in Australia in 1851, starting an Australian gold rush. Early life Edward Hammond Hargraves was born on 7 October 1816 in Gosport, Hampshire , England, the son of Elizabeth (née Whitcombe) and John Edward Hargraves.
In April 1851, John Lister and William Tom, trained by Edward Hargraves, found 120 grams of gold. This discovery, instigated by Hargraves, led directly to the beginning of the gold rush in New South Wales. This was the first gold rush in Australia. It was in full operation by May 1851, [65] even before it was officially proclaimed on 14 May ...
Twenty-eight years after the Fish River discovery, a man named Edward Hargraves discovered a 'grain of gold' in a billabong near Bathurst in 1851. [8] Hargraves returned to New South Wales from the Californian goldfields where he was unsuccessful. Hargraves decided to begin searching for gold in the state of New South Wales.
Edward Hargraves made the discovery of gold in Bathurst in 1851. Although gold had been found in Australia as early as 1823 by surveyor James McBrien, a gold rush began when Edward Hargraves widely publicised his discovery of gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, in February 1851. Further discoveries were made later that year in Victoria, where ...
In popular literature it has been stated that William Tom Jr, John Lister and Edward Hargraves found payable gold in February 1851 at the Ophir gold diggings, located at the confluence of Summer Hill Creek and Lewis Ponds Creek (). Hargraves was awarded £10,500 (worth $1,125,434 in 2004 values) by the NSW Government.
A gold rush changed California's history. That precious metal is back, striking the same reaction. ... Another story is that Hamilton was out there personally hunting for gold. Before it was found ...
7 April — Edward Hargraves proclaims the discovery of gold at Ophir, New South Wales.The gold was actually discovered by William Tom and John Lister.; 10 April – The NSW Association for Preventing the Renewal of Transportation sends a petition to Queen Victoria.
Archaeologist Helen Geake works in Norfolk - the treasure finds capital of the UK - and often thinks of the Twelve Days of Christmas carol in her work. There is one particular verse that stands ...