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A very productive gold field surrounded the area of Hill End. This was the location of the world's largest piece of gold-bearing material, a specimen of slate and gold weighing 235 kilograms, containing 85 kg (2,720 troy oz), known as Holtermann's Nugget, found by Bernhardt Holtermann in 1872. [14]
Early efforts were focussed on alluvial gold and the towns of Hill End and Tambaroora grew up around the creeks and dams worked for that purpose. In 1859, with the imposition of an urban plan for Hill End, the town grew in a more orderly fashion and by the height of the second, larger rush in 1872, it was the largest inland settlement in the ...
Forest Reefs was a gold mining area with alluvial gold being found in the 1860s and 1870s. [3] There was also very significant deep lead gold mining in the area, [4] [5] although the material mined from the deep leads needed to be crushed to obtain the gold it contained. Only a few of the reefs in the area were gold-bearing. [6] [7] [8]
In 1852 during the Australian Gold Rush, gold was discovered at Upper Adelong. Records around the time indicated a yield of 198 kg of precious metals. In 1855 Adelong was declared a gold field. The Adelong township, which was first established in 1836, came alive when in 1857 William Willams discovered a gold bearing reef ore on Charcoal Hill.
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 gold-bearing quartz reef varied in thickness, from 12 feet up to 37 feet. A 200 ton bulk sample, averaged slightly over 16 pennyweights (0.8 troy ounces) to the ton. In 1900, the Mount Boppy Gold-Mining Company was formed, in London, to exploit the newly-proven, large, rich deposit. By July 1900, work on establishing the mine was well under ...
The Adelong Falls Gold Workings is a heritage-listed former gold processing site and now picnic reserve at Adelong, in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and built in 1860 by David Wilson and William Ritchie. It is also known as Adelong Falls Gold Workings/Reserve. The property is owned by the Snowy Valleys Council.
A working hypothesis was that the gold deposits extended, under the Murray and the inter-colonial border, to Corowa. In 1893, a company was formed to explore the area, by sinking bore holes looking for alluvial gold in a deep lead deposit. [15] [16] By late 1894, gold bearing gravel was struck at a depth of 307 feet. [17]