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Australia's first payable gold was officially discovered in Australia in May 1851.

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What was discovered in 1851 which led to a rapid increase in free men immigrating to Australia?

1851 was the year that the first payable gold was discovered in Australia.


What important mineral was found in 1851 in australia?

It was not actually a mineral that was found in Australia in 1851, but a metal. Payable gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, leading to the goldrushes.


What was the name of the prospector that found gold in Australia in 1851?

Gold was first officially discovered in Australia in 1851, not far from Bathurst, New South Wales, by Edward Hargraves with the help of John Lister.


What town in Australia did not become an important city until 1851 when the gold rush was discovered?

Ballarat


Who discovered gold in Australia in the river in 1850?

No-one is recorded as having discovered gold in the river in Australia in 1850. However, Edward Hargraves discovered gold in Summerhill Creek near Ophir in 1851, and this sparked the Australian goldrush.


The population grew incredibly when the whole world discovered gold in Australia?

Yes. It is estimated that the population of Australia trebled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.


What was found in Australia in 1851?

1851 was the year of the first official gold discoveries in Australia.


What was Australia's first gold field?

Australia's first gold field was the one where the first payable gold was discovered in 1851 - that is Ophir, at Summerhill Creek, near Bathurst in NSW.


Where and when did the gold rush begin Australia?

In May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed he discovered payable gold at Ophir near Orange.


What was the name of Australia back in 1851?

Australia was not a country in 1851, but a series of colonies, each with its own government. However, the name of Australia for the continent had been officially adopted in 1824, so this is what the land was known as in 1851.


Who discovered the moons Ariel and Umbriel from Uranus?

William Lassel discovered them in 1851.


In what year was Australia's first goldrush?

1851