Tuesday 29 July 2014

The Australian Gold Rush


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We have been learning about the gold rush in Australia. We have learnt lots of things about the gold rush such as:

  • Near the end of September 1851, there were about 10,000 people digging for gold near ballarat.  
  • The most popular goldfields were Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.
  • The ophir mine was near a waterhole.
  • Gold was valued from $12,00 to $35 .00 an ounce.
  • Women did do mining later on in the gold rush and women used to entertain men while they were digging.
  • Gold seekers must pay for a licence in order to dig for Gold.
  • Food cost a lot because so much people were getting gold.

What interesting facts have you found out so far?

12 comments:

  1. Great post thought it was really good and clear and i think that all people in year five would get what they were saying great post

    from Matthew.D

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  2. I really like your blog post and I learnt allot of new things.

    from Abby

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  3. Hope you like my blog post. It has been really cool learning about the gold rush.

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  4. A cradle is used to seperate rocks from gold

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  5. Chinese people were rejected from Australia because Australians were jealous that the Chinese people found gold.

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  6. There were 10,000 Chinese seekers in the gold rush

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  7. They found gold while panning because the gravel was lighter than the gold.

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  8. Puddling is a gold extraction method when the clay is hard the water softens it so the clay will break down and the gold will be at the bottom.

    From Ryley

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  9. European miners were angry, because the Chinese miners were mining on their mines. They were so angry that they made a rule that only a limited number of Chinese miners could mine there.

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  10. a circular shaft was used to dig down for the chinese most of the miners at the goldfields used rectangular shaft but the chinese used a circular shaft which was more durable and stronger helping the chinese.
    Matthew.D

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  11. It was really fun I found 5 golden chocolates. Some people found none or one.
    Thomas

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  12. The gold was really fun

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