1851+Gold

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 * =The 1850's started with a bang when gold was found all around Victoria. Millions of dollars' worth of gold was found, turning Victoria into the greatest gold bearing in the world. Six years later 3,053,744 ounces of gold was found grabbing the title of the most gold for that year.= ||
 * [[image:gold rush image web.jpg width="243" height="324" caption="The average gold panner"]] ||
 * =The population in the 1850's escalated by approximately twenty three thousand people because of growing numbers from the Gold Rush.=

=The working conditions that the average miner was put through would have been unbearable. The miners were equipt with a single lantern light, a pickaxe, a range of mining tools and a wooden wheel barrow to do their job.= ||