Gympie goldfields, 1909

Gympie, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1909
21 October 2010
21 October 2010

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Gympie, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
21 October 2010
Queensland Geological Survey

Collection of the State Library of New South Wales

Gold

Topographical map of Gympie and environs, Queensland Geological Survey, 1909. Illustrating report on Gympie Goldfield by B Dunstan, Government Geologist, sheets 9 and 10. Collection of the State Library of New South Wales

The Geological Survey of Queensland commenced in 1868 at the suggestion of Richard Daintree. Daintree, a geologist and photographer from Huntingdonshire in England, had arrived in Queensland in 1864, having spent time on the gold fields of Victoria. Daintree travelled through the north of the state finding several indications of gold, copper and coal and his prospecting work in North Queensland is recognised as a catalyst in the early development of gold in that area.

Gold

Gold symbolises wealth. It transformed Queensland’s history and landscape.

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Proclaimed gold fields and mining districts, Queensland

8 October 2010
8 October 2010
8 October 2010
Out where the dead towns lie

Proclaimed gold fields and mining districts of Queensland, no date. Map identifes 68 gold fields and 13 proclaimed mining districts. Collection of Jan Wegner

Chinatowns

A notable feature of the early Chinese settlement in Queensland, as in other places where overseas Chinese societies developed, was a communal pattern of settlement.

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Paradise goldfield, c1897

View of the goldfield in Paradise, c1897, stereographic print. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 15952

Order in Paradise: a colonial gold field

The gold mining town of Paradise once stretched for more than a kilometre along the southern bank of the Burnett River in Central Queensland.

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