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Gold was first discovered in the Ballarat region in 1851 at a sheep station called "Clunes", there is a small town at the location today named Clunes.
There was a much bigger deposit of gold waiting to be discovered near by.
There is some dispute (1) as to who actual found the deposit at Ballarat, but one thing is for sure, it changed the face of the sleepy sheep station and Australia for ever.
More than 80 million ounces of gold or 2500 Tons of gold were recovered from Central Victoria in the gold rushes of the mid to late 1800's.
The figures would be much higher as a lot of "unofficial" gold was never recorded.
Ballarat
Most Pics are self explanatory.
The Stockade pics are of the original site of the Eureka uprising.
The site is in George St Ballarat East and a distance from the Eureka Stockade the tourists visit.
This was conveyed to me some years ago by a local historian of Ballarat when I lived there.
(Actually in George St)
