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THE MUDDY YARRA HID EVIDENCE OF FRAUD

On July 22, 2021   /   History   /   3 Comments
Tags: Fool's Gold, Gold, Gold Fraud, Kalgoolie, Mercantile Rowing Club, Princes Bridge, social history, Yarra River
THE MUDDY YARRA HID EVIDENCE OF FRAUD

Where there is a commodity as precious as gold, there is a possibility of fraud. In June 1950 a twenty seven year old Melbourne man arrived in Kalgoolie hoping to do a bit of gold trading. He put the word out and soon found himself being offered

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THE ODD HISTORY OF A GOLD NUGGET

On May 11, 2021   /   History   /   Leave a comment
Tags: Australian Museum, Gold, Gold Nuggets, Maitland Bar Nugget, Sydney
THE ODD HISTORY OF A GOLD NUGGET

In 1887 there was great excitement over a huge gold nugget found at Maitland Bar near Mudgee. The prize was unearthed on June 22, as three miners were working their claim; Jonathan Thorpe, Isaac Holmes and Fred Leeder. After washing two tubs of material Holmes and Leeder

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WAS THERE GOLD AT GAWLER?

On June 11, 2020   /   History   /   Leave a comment
Tags: Floods, Gawler, Gold, Gold mines, Great Depression., social history, Tasmania
WAS THERE GOLD AT GAWLER?

Gawler is a tiny rural community, several kilometres inland from Ulverstone, on Tasmania’s north-west coast. On April 4 1929 a tragic event left residents of Gawler in a state of utter grief. During widespread flooding in northern Tasmania, eight young people drowned when their covered Ford truck

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