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- Endeavour 42, Lake Cowal, West Wyalong
- New Occidental, Occidental
- Hill End Project, Hill End
- Cadia, Cadia Ridgeway - Newcrest
Northern Territory:
- Callie, The Granites - Tanami
- Mount Todd - Katherine
- Toms Gully, Union Reefs - Pine Creek
Queensland
- Gympie
- Charters Towers
- Mt Isa
- Cloncurry
- Mount Morgan
South Australia
- Challenger, Olympic Dam, Prominant Hill - Gawler Craton
Tasmania
- Beaconsfield - Launceston
Victoria
- Bendigo Mine, inc Central Deborah
- Ballarat Mine
- Stawell
Western Australia (the following lists towns and significant mining areas, within which are numerous mines, where about half of Australia's gold mines are located)
- Agnew
- Boddington Mine
- Carosue Dam - Laverton
- Coolgardie
- Coyote - Tanami
- Darlot-Centenary - Leonora
- Kundana
- Mount Magnet
- Pilbara
- Southern Cross
- Higginsville
- Kundana
- Lawlers - Leonora
- Meekatharra
- Norseman
- Paddys Flat
- Mt Pleasant
- Mulline
- Northwest
- Deakin Northwest, Jundee
- Super Pit - Kalgoorlie-Boulder
- Kalgoorlie, Golden Mile
- Wallaby - Laverton
- Wattle Dam
- Wiluna
You can find a map of the current goldfields, and more details regarding the goldfields within each state, at the related links below.
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MaxineGold was believed to have been first discovered in Australia in the Fish River but discoveries were kept secret, for fear of sparking off unrest among the convicts.
Surveyor James McBrien reported finding gold near Bathurst, NSW in 1823, and there were numerous other gold finds which remained unreported.
Gold was first officially discovered in Australia in 1851 at Ophir, not far from Bathurst, New South Wales by Edward Hargraves.
Each of the states in Australia had gold discoveries. The main goldfields were:
- Near Bathurst, at Ophir, NSW, and nearby regions such as Young (Lambing Flat), Sofala and Hill End.
- Bendigo and Ballarat in Victoria. The Bendigo/Ballarat/Castlemaine region remains one of Australia's richest gold-bearing regions.
- The goldfields of Gympie, Queensland, and far northern Queensland.
- In Western Australia, the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie goldfields were discovered several decades later, in 1892 and 1893.
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Who won Australia's first ever Olympic gold medal?
Edwin Flack was the first Australian to receive gold at the first games of the modern Olympics. He won the 800m mens and the 1500m mens.
Why are Australia's national colors green and gold?
Australia's National colours are not blue and gold. Blue and gold are Australia's "heraldic colours", being the colours of the wreath in Australia's coat of arms. Further, blue and gold were selected as the colours of the ribbon of the Order of Australia in 1975. Australia's official National (and unofficial sporting) colours are Green and Gold, the colours of our national emblem, the Golden Wattle. These were established in a proclamation by Sir Ninian Stephen, the Governor-General of Australia on 19 April 1984.
The first man who explored gold?
Many historians credit Egypt for the discovery of gold, around 3000 BC.
What achievements has Luis Vaez De Torres done?
Luis Vaez de Torres is noted for the first recorded navigation of the strait which separates the continent of Australia from the island of New Guinea, and which now bears his name (Torres Strait).
King Ferdinand was amazed by the gold Ponce de Leon found on his first voyage true or false?
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