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The diggers got their equipment to the goldfields through various methods. Some would carry their tools and equipment by hand, others used pack animals like horses or mules to transport their gear. Additionally, some diggers would hire carts or wagons to transport their equipment, while others would use boats to navigate rivers and transport their tools to the goldfields.
There were around 20,000 diggers in the ballarat goldfields in 1852
At the Goldfields the diggers slept in tents.
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In order to get to the Victorian goldfields, the diggers could walk, or travel by horseback, or bring a horse and sulky or dray.
Diggers originally referred to the men who dug for gold on the Australian goldfields. Later it came to mean the Australians who fought in the wars, because they still had to dig trenches.
They moved in on mining areas which the local diggers thought should be theirs alone.
The Bathurst goldfields continued successfully for many years, in increasingly outlying areas (e.g. Hill End, Sofala), but there were fewer diggers there because of the lure of the rich Bendigo and Ballarat goldfields in the south. The goldfields in Bathurst were still going strong in the mid 1870s.
Food that the diggers did not shoot for themselves (such as rabbits and kangaroos) came from the bigger cities. This is why it was so expensive. The small shop owners on the goldfields were in a position to buy in bulk and then charge extreme prices for their goods.
pick axes and shovels
In essence, the Eureka Stockade was a rebellion which led to a revolution in how the diggers were represented in government.The Eureka Stockade was not a riot because there is no evidence that the diggers who fortified themselve in the stockade were unruly.In more ways, it was a revolution, because it caused the government to take notice of the conditions on the goldfields, and it led to the birth of democratic representation in Australia.
Things like bulldozers, graders, trench diggers, etc.