page_title: Australian gold rush
section_title: Gold rushes in Victoria
hierarchical_section_title: Australian gold rush / Gold rushes in Victoria
caption_attribution_description: English: Historic marker at Poverty Point, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. This marks the site of where gold was first found in Ballarat in 1851. The site is just off Main Road in the suburb of Golden Point.
context_page_description: The Australian gold rush was a large number of gold discoveries in Australia. Thousands of people came to Australia in the hope of finding a lot of gold and becoming rich. The rush started in 1851 when gold was found near Bathurst, New South Wales and ended with the last rush in 1893 to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. At each place gold was easily found in rivers and creeks. This was known as alluvial gold and could be found by individual miners using very basic equipment such as a spade and a dish. In most places this alluvial gold was taken in the first few months. To get at the gold that was buried deeper in the ground meant that miners needed to work together and dig tunnels. Eventually large companies were started to raise money so that deep gold mines could be built.
  The gold rushes happened when alluvial gold was found. Miners would quickly move there in the hope of being the first to find the surface gold. For example, miners rushing to Clunes, Victoria in August 1851, quickly changed their minds and went to Buninyong when they heard of a new gold discovery.
context_section_description: Clunes, 28 June 1851
  Warrandyte, at Anderson's Creek, July 1851
  Castlemaine, 20 July 1851
  Buninyong, 2 August 1851
  Ballarat, 8 August 1851
  Bendigo, October 1851
  Beechworth, February 1852
  Yackandandah, May 1852
  Eaglehawk, May 1852
  Omeo, 1852
  Heathcote 1852
  Walhalla, February 1853
  Maldon, June 1853
  Buckland River, July 1853
  Waranga, 3 August 1853
  Creswick, 1853
  Ararat, October 1854
  Daylesford
  Blackwood, February 1855
  St Arnaud, 1855
  Dunnolly
  Tarnagulla
  Moliagul
  Wedderburn, 1852
  Rheola
  Inglewood
  Kingower
  Stawell, 1857
  Chiltern 1858
  Barkly 1859
  Wood's Point, 1862
  Gaffney's Creek
  Jamieson
  Matlock
caption: Site of the first gold discovery, Poverty Point, Ballarat
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