No. The Beyers and Holtermann nugget, aka the Holtermann nugget, was found by workers at the Star of Hope Gold Mining Co on Hawkins Hill, in October 1872. Hargraves was not one of these workers.
Edward Hargraves did not find a nugget of any notable size. The claim to fame for Hargraves was the fact that he (or rather, two men he employed) found the first payable gold in Australia, and thus started the Australian Gold rush in 1851.
Edward Hargraves did not find a nugget of any notable size. Hargraves was important for the fact that he (or rather, two men he employed) found the first payable gold in Australia, and thus started the Australian Gold rush in 1851.
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The Beyers and Holtermann nugget, also known as the Holtermann nugget, was found by workers at the Star of Hope Gold Mining Co on Hawkins Hill, in October 1872. No individual worker is specifically named in the find.
Edward Hargraves was led to the right location to find gold by John Lister.
Hargraves did not actually find any gold nuggets himself. His offsider John Lister, was the one who actually found the gold, and it was not in the form of a large nugget. The gold was payable, but it was in smaller nuggets that were not named.
No. Many discoveries of gold had been found before Edward Hargraves found his but it was kept secret in case of chaos.
Gold was first "officially" discovered in Australia by Edward Hargraves in February 1851, not far from Bathurst, New South Wales.
Before Edward Hargraves made his discovery, many were traveling to California to find gold. He inspired the Australian gold rush in 1851.
Edward Hargraves Involvement in the Gold Rush era is he was a gold miner and that he helped with people to find gold. People say that he was the first to find gold in Australia But some say the he was just lucky with that government to have found gold and get rewarded for it.
Edward Hargraves did not discover anything in California. He was unsuccessful on the goldfields, but he did bring back to Australia knowledge of gold-bearing country and different techniques for panning, such as cradling. Hargraves was the first to find payable gold in Australia, doing so in May 1851, at Ophir, near Bathurst, NSW.
Edward Hargraves, though credited with finding the first payable gold in Australia, was not the one who actually did the work and the digging. He employed John Lister to find the gold.Regardless, the time between when Hargraves returned to Australia and Lister found gold (using knowledge and technology Hargraves had brought from California) was only about one month. Hargraves returned to Australia in January 1851, and found gold with Lister's help on 12 February, although the official announcement was not made until May of that year.