Gold Rush Stories - Part 11 - Conjecture Surrounding the Gold Discovery

Gold Rush Stories - Part 11 - Conjecture Surrounding the Gold Discovery

Historical images of Edward Hargraves the first person credited with discovering Payable Gold in Australia GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 10 - THE DISCOVERY OF PAYABLE GOLD BY EDWARD HARGRAVES IN 1851

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 Bernard Holternman and the Holterman Nugget the largest gold nugget ever found GOLD RUSH STORIES PART 34 - HOW MUCH GOLD IS THERE?

DISCOVERING GOLD

Upon settling Bathurst, it would be another decade before the first flecks of gold were fished out of Fish creek in February 1823 when the colony’s population numbered 40,632, and a further 28 years before word had rung out across the land of the discovery of ‘payable gold’ by Edward Hargreaves, first sounding the figurative alarm at a Bathurst hotel, by which time the pre ‘Gold Rush’ colony had reached 437,655 in number, when Hargreaves discovery was declared in 1851.

But was he really the first person to discover Payable Gold within Australia..?

Countless letters to the Editors of Australian newspapers call into question this very claim. 

 

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The Gold Discovery - Published 5 May 1851 Sydney Morning Herald
The Gold Discovery - Published 5 May 1851 Sydney Morning Herald

References

https://livingartlifestyle.com/blogs/lawson-son-of-a-suffragette/lawson-son-of-a-suffragette-part-2-setting-the-scene-the-backstory-origins-of-a-nation

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Mayne Street Gulgong NSW Gold Rush town of the 1870's GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 13 - DISCOVERY OF THE HOLTERMANN COLLECTION
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A polymathic touring musician, film maker, historian and producer, for the past 8 years Kieran Wicks has navigated the Great Southern Land of Australia performing hundreds of shows to ravenous audiences, whilst simultaneously developing a vast catalogue of interviews, images and videos in the production of multiple formative docuseries including 'One Town at a Time', which records his musical journey, immersed in poignant, forgotten Australian history and poetry, in archives such as 'Gold Rush Stories' and 'Poetry of the Pioneers'.

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