The 10 best things about Australia’s gold rush

Posted On September 26, 2021

Gold fever is alive and well, and the first time the state’s gold industry came to the fore was during the late 1800s.

Gold miners were desperate for gold in Australia, and gold was a relatively new commodity in the late 19th century, but the prospect of finding it quickly attracted a lot of attention.

The first gold prospectors to find and mine gold in Queensland were led by an Englishman named John Wightman, who in 1859 founded a company called The Wightmans, a subsidiary of the Wightmills Mining Company in Queensland.

John Wight and his son Thomas were two of the first settlers in Queensland, and Wight’s son Thomas Wight became the first gold miner in the state in 1879.

The company eventually took over the Wights’ mines, and by 1891 they had more than 200 miners in operation in Queensland and New South Wales.

In 1901 the Wawnmans purchased the Gold Fields mine in Wivenhoe, Western Australia, which had previously been run by the Goldfields Mining Company.

The Wight brothers operated a number of mines in the Gold Downs region of Queensland, including the Gold Mines, Goldfields Mines, and Goldfields Prospecting Company.

Gold mining in the region had been fairly profitable for most of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and a large amount of the profits came from exports of Australian produced gold, especially from New South, Queensland, New South Africa and Australia.

There were a number gold fields in the area that were owned by the Wighting family, but they were all managed by the Mining Corporation of Queensland (MCQ).

In 1902, in order to raise money for the purchase of the Golds Downs Goldfields Mine, the Withers began buying up land and selling it to the MCQ.

Goldfields was the first mining operation to be opened in the Wivengee region, and it was soon followed by Goldfields and the Winton Goldfields, which operated from 1905 to 1910.

The MCQ purchased the Wittenys Goldfields mine in 1910 and sold it to an unnamed company in 1911.

The sale of the mine to the company was completed in 1913, and soon the Widdies started building a second mine.

By the 1920s, the Goldies had started to expand into Queensland and NSW, and in 1931 the Waunys bought a second mining operation, Gold Fields, and renamed it the Goldfield Gold Mines.

The Goldfields Goldfields had two major operations: the Gold Mine, which was the main gold processing plant in the Western Australia goldfields, and also operated the Wigginton Gold Fields in New South and Western Australia.

The mining of gold in the western region of the Western Australian Goldfields began in 1932, when the Wiginton Gold Mines opened.

In 1934, the MCI sold the Wollongong Gold Fields to a consortium of companies including the MCX and the MPS.

The majority of the gold processing in Western Australia was done at the Wigan Gold Fields.

In the late 1940s, a new gold mine was opened at the site of the former Goldfields gold mine.

The new mine was named Winton.

In 1956, the first Australian gold mining operation was started at the Gold Sands mine near Wigan.

Around the same time, a major new mine called the Wunga Gold Fields was opened in Western Victoria.

The first miners in the West Australia goldfield goldfields were brought to the Western Kimberley in the 1950s and 1960s, and these early miners had an immediate impact on the industry in the Kimberley.

As mining became more profitable, new mining companies came to set up operations, and so the Wootons became the largest miners in Western Australian history, and had a major impact on gold mining in that area of the country.

In 1964, the mining of more than 100 million tonnes of gold, silver and gold-bearing ore and a number billion dollars worth of copper ore began at Wootton.

Over the next two decades, the Kimberleys goldfields increased in size and population.

By the 1980s, mining in Western Kimberleys had grown from less than 10 per cent of the total gold mining operations in the country to more than 50 per cent.

A number of mining companies, including Woottons, Wungas Gold Mines and Gold Fields Mining Co., established their operations in Western Western Australia and in the Northern Territory, and eventually began expanding into Queensland.

The growth of mining in Queensland has seen a number mining companies operating there since the early 1980s.

The early mining of the Great Australian Gold Rush of the late 1870s was a major event in Queensland history, as many gold miners had travelled to the Kimber to begin mining in earnest.

The Great Australian Silver Rush of 1880 saw the first significant influx of gold miners from Queensland into the state.

Gold Mining in Queensland was the second biggest industry in Western Queensland, after mining in New Zealand.