Yes. Anyone who wanted to actively mine or pan for gold needed to have a licence, whether they be men, women or children.
When it came to the Eureka Stockade, the Australian gold miners elected Peter Lalor as their leader.
yes
A gold rush
by finding gold
You needed a miners licence so that the government knows you've paid to be on the gold fields. The Chinese had to pay way more though.
Searching for and mining for gold.
A gold licence was required on the Australian goldfields in order for anyone to hold a claim and dig for gold. If anyone did not have a licence, he coukd be heavily fined, or thrown into gaol.
A gold mining licence, sometimes also called a miners' right, cost thirty shillings on the Australian goldfields in 1853. It had to be renewed regularly, and it had to be produced whenever the troopers came around to check. These checks were invasive and often quite violent, which is one of the main reasons why there was so much unrest on the goldfields in the early years of the Australian gold rushes.
It was a licence that's used to let miners mine in the gold fields
In 1851, a gold mining licence, sometimes also called a miners' right, cost thirty shillings on the Australian goldfields. It had to be renewed regularly, and it had to be produced whenever the troopers came around to check. These checks were invasive and often quite violent, which is one of the main reasons why there was so much unrest on the goldfields in the early years of the Australian gold rushes.
30 shillings a month whether they found gold or not.
The Eureka Stockade was a battle between the police (troopers), soldiers and the Australian gold miners (diggers). The miners rebelled against the monthly licence fees and invasive and often violent licence checks by the police, and certainly hoped to gain the attention of the politicians, but convicts were not involved at all, as there were no longer convicts in New South Wales at that time.