page_title: Australian gold rushes
section_title: 1852–1893: Other finds in New South Wales
hierarchical_section_title: Australian gold rushes / Notable gold finds that started rushes / 1852–1893: Other finds in New South Wales
caption_attribution_description: English: Minehead, goldfields Gulgong, New South Wales, 1872-1873, State Library of New South Wales, ON 4 Box 43 No. 18
context_page_description: During the Australian gold rushes, significant numbers of workers relocated to areas in which gold had been discovered. Gold was found several times in Australia before 1851, but there were only gold rushes from 1851 onwards, mainly because the colonial government of New South Wales had previously suppressed news of gold finds which it believed would reduce the workforce and destabilise the economy.
  After the California Gold Rush began in 1848, motivating many people to leave Australia for California to look for gold there, the New South Wales government rethought its position, and sought approval from the British Colonial Office to allow the exploitation of mineral resources, and offered rewards for finding gold.
context_section_description: Adelong, 1852
  Sunny Corner, 1854
  Rocky River near Uralla, 1856
  Broulee, 1857, on the Araluen Field
  Mogo, 1858, on the Araluen Field
  Kiandra, 1859
  Young, 1860, known at that time as Lambing Flat
  Nerrigundah 1861
  Forbes, 1861
  Parkes, 1862
  Lucknow near Orange, 1862
  Grenfell 1866
  In beach sands at Northern Rivers, 1870
  Gulgong, 1870
  Hillgrove, 1877
  Mount Drysdale near Cobar, 1892
  Mount McDonald near Wyangala, 1880
  Wyalong, 1893
caption: Minehead, goldfields Gulgong, New South Wales, 1872–1873, attributed to Henry Beaufoy Merlin
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