The main ones were British, German, French, American.
Europe,Asia,Canada and America
Yes, they came from Europe, China and the Americas.
When the gold rush was over some of the people went back to the country they came from and the remaining people spread out around Australia.
During the early decades of the Australian goldrushes, the largest number of diggers came from China.
There was no gold rush in Australia in the 1840s.
The gold-seekers who came to California during the Gold Rush were called "49-ers" in reference to 1849 since that is when a lot of them came. The large majority of people who arrived were from America, but there were also thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
Ships did not arrive at the Australian gold rush. The early gold rush locations were all inland several hundred kilometres, and ships could not come inland. Throughout the 1800s, ships came in to port at the major cities in Australia regularly, and these carried passengers and settlers of all descriptions. It is not known which ship carried the first prospectors who had heard about the possibility of a gold rush.
Most of the miners were simply Australian. A great number of Chinese also came to the goldfields.
People from all over the world were drawn to the Australian gold rush. Naturally, tens of thousands of Australians downed their tools or left their farms to travel to the goldfields. As well, people came from Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia (especially China).
People from all over Europe, America, the Middle East, and China were attracted to the Australian gold rush. Most of them brought nothing but a will to work hard and the skills they had attained in their home countries. Many of them never saw any gold but their skills proved to be invaluable to the formation of Australia as a country that could stand up on its own.
miners came for the gold rush to find gold and get wealthy