John Lister and William Tom were with Edward Hargraves when he discovered the first payable gold in Australia.
Hargraves was born in 1811. He discovered gold in 1851. Therefore he was about 40 years old.
The first official discovery of payable gold near Bathurst, NSW, was made by Edward Hargraves in 1851. Hargraves was assisted by John Lister, a man who had already found gold in the region. Lister led Hargraves directly to where gold was found, at Summerhill Creek, at a site which Hargraves named "Ophir".
Gold was first "officially" discovered in Australia by Edward Hargraves in February 1851, not far from Bathurst, New South Wales.
Edward Hargraves
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-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.
Yes. Edward Hargraves is regarded as the one who first discovered payable gold in Australia. There had been numerous gold discoveries in the decades preceding Hargarve's discovery but news of them had been suppressed.
In May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed he discovered payable gold at Ophir near Orange.
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.
John Lister was the one who actually led Edward Hargraves to the first payable gold near Bathurst, New South Wales.
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 found gold at Summerhill Creek.