Miners Go Searching For Gold, End Up Digging Out Huge Gold Nugget
It all started in the gold fields of Victoria, Australia. Two Cornish prospectors tried their hands and ended up uncovering a huge gold nugget that made it to the history books!
The pair had no idea they would get this lucky, but they took their tools and hoped for the better. Let’s see the record-breaking discovery for ourselves.
20. Victoria, One Of The Most Populated Places in Australia
While we all know that Victoria has quite a huge number of population, it wasn’t so in the mid-19th century. It was more of an American Wild West. But what made people go there?
It was the gold rush!
19. Discovering Gold in New South Wales
In 1851, a prospector came to Australia and found pieces of gold in New South Wales. Later, more gold was discovered and that’s how the country’s gold fields began to be searched.
During the height of the gold rush, people would fill Melbourne’s Treasury Building with two tons of gold!
18. The British Came For More Gold
Over half a million of people from Britain and from all over the world rushed to Australia to mine the precious metal, impacting the Australian population. The towns’ population grew 1000%, up to 3000%!
However, once the supply of gold was mined, people had to find new places…
17. The Beginning of the Gold Rush
It was back in the 1850s when the two miners in our story arrived from Britain’s southwest coast in Australia. Deason and Oates were gold prospectors and wanted to make a fortune, so they ended up in Moliagul, Victoria in 1862.