Portrait of Gabriel Read

People/prospector

Gabriel Read

Gabriel Read (1825–1894), prospector. Linked to gold.

Legacy

Wikidata describes him as a gold prospector and farmer. The Otago gold rush is associated with his name, but no primary page for the 1861 find was reachable.1,2

Timeline

  1. from May 1861Otago gold rush3
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Mines

DiscoveredGabriel's GullyHis find in 1861 started the Otago rush, New Zealand's first major gold rush.4

Events

DiscoveredOtago gold rushA prospector and farmer whose find emptied Victoria's diggings.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q2424105
  2. File pages and licence metadata for portraits (via the Commons imageinfo/extmetadata API) Wikimedia Commons
  3. History of Gabriels Gully NZ Department of Conservation
  4. Gabriel's Gully NZ Department of Conservation

Pictures on this page: Thomas Gabriel Read.jpg, not known, image edited (Public domain).

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. Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Mijnramp Bois du Caizier, Marcinelle, België. Schacht, Rossem, Wim van / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).