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In Australia:
Edward Hargraves: initiated the gold rush in Australia by finding gold near Bathurst, New South Wales (the real finder was John Lister, but Hargraves was given the credit)
Paddy Hannan: started the gold rush that led to the establishment of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Jim (or Jack) Larcombe: found the largest gold nugget in eastern Victoria
John Deason and Richard Oates: found the world's largest gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, in western Victoria
James Nash: found gold near Gympie in Queensland. This led Gympie to be nicknamed "The town that saved Queensland", as the newly formed state was on the brink of bankruptcy prior to the gold discovery.
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∙ 12y agoProspectors: the people who came after most of the good claims were staked were called '49ers.
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How many people used pans or digged in the gold rush?
A third of the world
What was the event called the people rush to California 1849?
The Gold Rush
Who looked for gold in the gold rush?
People who looked for gold were called miners.
Why were the people called the 49'ers in the gold rush?
People were called 49ers b/c the gold rush happened in 1849, sum 80,000 people migrating to California in search of gold. People in fewer numbers also migrated in 1848, they were called 48ers.
Why were the people who the gold rush called forty niners?
The forty-niners were called that because they were gold- seekers
The people who rushed to California to seacrch for gold were called?
The miners went to California in the gold rush were called 49ers.
Where was gold in 1848?
Gold was discovered in California in 1849The people who looked for gold where called the fourty-niners which stands for (1849)And in the period of time when gold was in California there was so much gold that they called it the gold rush and the gold rush brought more than 100,000 people to California and the rest of the United States
What were people called that hurried to California during the gold rush?
49ers
What were police called in the Australian gold rush?
During the Australian gold rush the police were called traps
Why gold rush called 49ers?
The 49ers were all of the miners. The California Gold Rush occured in 1849, ergo, the miners, or people who went west in search for gold, were dubbed "'49ers."
What is the Alaska gold rush?
The Great Canadian Gold Rush is often called the Yukon Gold Rush, but is best known as the Klondike Rush (more of a stampede then a rush, it assumed panic proportions with people abandoning their farms and families in search or a new chance to achieve the American Dream).
What is the name for what happened when people began streaming in to Ca in search of gold?
This period of time was called the Gold Rush.
