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Many of the Chinese returned to their home country and their fsmilies with their gold.

Many others stayed on in Australia to set up businesses in the towns that sprang up around the goldfields.

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Were the Chinese successful gold miners in the Australian gold rush?

Yes, the Chinese were very successful gold miners in the gold rush, and this is one of the reasons why they were disliked so much. They were successful at finding gold, but were not accepted by Australian society. During the gold rushes, the Chinese kept to themselves. They were shunned by Australians because the Chinese were much harder-working, and subsequently tended to find more gold. They were resented for this, and for the fact that Australians just did not understand their language. Australians tended to regard the Chinese as secretive, and btherefore a threat. The Chinese often sent the gold they found back to their own country, and Australians did not appreciate the wealth being sent out of their own country. For this reason, groups of Australians would sometimes turn on the Chinese, injuring and even killing them. The Chinese were often subjected to being scalped, and their possessions wrecked or looted. The goldfields were not safe places for the Chinese - simply because they had a better work ethic.


Why did the Australian gold fields end?

The Australian goldfields did not really end; it was just that the gold was harder to get to, so the goldrush ended.The Australian gold rush ended because the alluvial gold, that is, the gold which was able to be reached easily, was mined out. Alluvial gold sat on the surface and was easy for prospectors to find.Once the "easy pickings" ran out, only large companies had the equipment to dig down deep to where the reef gold was. There is still much more gold in Australia, but by early in the twentieth century, most of it could only be reached by heavy industrial mining equipment. This is the primary method of gold extraction in Australia today.


What were police called in the Australian gold rush?

During the Australian gold rush the police were called traps


What was the main place of origin of most of the miners who came to Australia for the gold rush?

Most of the miners were simply Australian. A great number of Chinese also came to the goldfields.


What happened to a Chinese immigrant during the Gold Rush?

This is just a guess, but during the gold rush they were cooks and diggers. Cooks: They would cook a lot of Chinese food that all the gold diggers loved which they would of made bundles of money and gold. Diggers: they would just dig for gold and hope for the best. But in most cases they would be discriminated against any attacked for their race.