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Ballarat goldfield mine

Ballarat goldfield mine, Australia, alluvial, mining gold.

Why Ballarat goldfield is famous

Gold found in July to August 1851, with about 50,000 people in 1871.1,2

Story cards

Timeline

  1. from July 1851Victorian gold rush4
  2. 1854Eureka Stockade5
  3. 1858Welcome Nugget found at Ballarat3

What kind of deposit

Orogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)

Ballarat goldfield today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Events

Led toVictorian gold rushRead what happened near Ballarat goldfield: Victorian gold rush.1Led toWelcome Nugget found at BallaratRead what happened near Ballarat goldfield: Welcome Nugget found at Ballarat.1HereEureka StockadeA mine from the same area and mineral story: Ballarat goldfield.5

Places

Located inBallaratBallarat goldfield sits at Ballarat.1

Deposit types

An example ofOrogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)Ballarat goldfield belongs to the orogenic gold family of deposits.6

Sources

  1. Ballarat Victorian Places
  2. Wikidata entity Q17856
  3. Australian Mineral Facts: Gold Geoscience Australia
  4. Year Book Australia 1911, gold chapter Australian Bureau of Statistics
  5. Eureka Stockade (Golden Victoria, ErgoSlv) State Library Victoria
  6. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.