Edward Hammond Hargraves's Gold Rush

Edmund Hammond Hargraves
Edward Hammond Hargraves was born on the 7th of October, 1816 in Gosport, Hemisphere England in the family of an army officer.Hargraves was one of the most famed and colourful explorers in the gold rush era. He had claimed to be the founder of gold in Australia in 1851. His announcement of gold in Australia paved and wide spreaded across the continent for a sea of immigrants and gold diggers. Before observing for gold in Australia, he was searching for gold in California.Hargraves started his search for gold as a prospector in California. Appointing himself as a leader to a small group, Hargraves learned several techniques including planning and cradling although he was relatively unsuccessful in his search. After his

He strongly believed that gold was being waiting to be found. When Hargraves announced his intention to find gold in Australia, he was criticised inferiorly as he returned empty handed from California’s gold rush. Edmund Hargraves set out to explore the regions of Bathurst, New South Wales. On his arrival he was greeted by John Lister who also cited that he found gold in these plain areas as also his intention was to find gold. Together they formed a group of five including three of John Lister’s brothers. Hargraves used his techniques he learned from California in order to find gold. Their search was successful as they excavated 13 pounds each from the Summerhill Creek area.With this extraordinary find Hargraves rushed back to Sydney with the gold finds.When pressed for the exact location of the gold find, Hargraves negotiated a reward for himself, 500 pounds. His founding in Australia made him famous as Ophir fetched for his name,

Business and commerce lowered their price of shovels and other tools for digging in order to make people buy so they can dig for gold. Unfortunately, it did have a negative effect as well because clerks and labourers resigned their job to dig for gold. Because of the gold rush, Australia became a developed country and also ameliorated their ranking on producing gold. Australia is known to be the number 1 gold producer in the world due to this important event. Also more migration was taking place in order to scavenge for gold in the gold field. People from India, China and Britain came to dig for gold so they can revamp their future life. This migration had a huge impact on the Australian society because more than 700,000 people from overseas came to Australia to settle. Later on the 1850s Australia’s population increased by a million. As the popularity of the gold rush spreaded like a bushfire, the Australian government introduced a license that everyone has to get. This was a huge advantage towards the Australian economy because they are getting more money from people buying these licenses. After the discovery of goldfields, Australia had some new skilled workers as well as new professions. More than 200,000,000 pounds worth of gold was exported to Britain. Many Australians became wealthy and they built new buildings and