Five page booklet of Victorian gold nuggets listing the known nuggets that had a gross weight over 1,000 ounces.gold nugget, victoria, indicator, thomas chapman, welcome stranger, the welcome, blanche barkly, the precious, the canadian, the lady hotham, the sarah sands, blackman lead maryborough, the heron, the viscount canterbury

Yellow covered booklet titled 'Gold Nuggets of Australia'. Information obtained from every Mines Department in the Commonwealth of Australia. Information includes the name of the nugget, who found it and where. Also included is the weight of the nugget in ounces. Book compiled and written by Harry Ware and printed by Williams Boardley Print Kalgoorlie. The names of the large nuggets are: Welcome Stranger, Welcome, Bullock's Tongue, Curtis, Lady Bowen, Kerr's Hundredweight, Brennan, King of Water Worn, Blanch Barklay, Precious, Canadian, Lady Hotham, Sarah Sands, Viscount Canterbury, Little Hero, Big Ben, Joker, Monarch, Bobby Dazzler, General Gordon, Coolgardie, Friendly Creek, Daisy and Golden Eagle.book, book, gold nuggets of australia, harry ware, williams boardley print kalgoorlie, hargreaves, lister, tom, hotermann, byers, star of hope gold mine, mcginty & party, griffen & party, mcintyre, johnson, ah loy, geo curtis, dr kerr, guiness book of records, richard oates, john deason, red hill mining co., hall, slattery, yilgarn goldfield, arthur bayley, william ford, a villars, doyle & party, peterkin, mcpherson, perriman, pearce, dawson, john dunne, williams & party, anderson, p martin, summons, hart, millar, byrne, dawson, rampling, cole & party, woodall, dawkin, grant, roche, corry, sheehan, thompson, d mcintosh, hurstj, muir, a clive, w mcphee, h mcphee, j simmonds, w eddy, moran, s dighton, w abbott, sam wood, hogan, o'connor, c woods, s willcocks, gessner, huffa, w j murphy, jack legge, micky larkin, jack hehir, paddy hehir, joe matheson, dan browne, jim browne, mcwhinney & party, james larcombe jnr, james larcombe, zuegg & party, f h leach, newman bros

Chapters Chapter 1. 1848-50. The Discovery of Gold in the Port Phillip District. How a shepherd found Victoria’s first gold but failed to produce a goldrush. Chapter 2. The Discovery of Gold in Victoria. How a publican, a squatter, some more shepherds, a doctor, and an ex mailman, found the gold that produced the Victorian goldrush. Chapter 3. The Discovery of Gold at Ballarat. How the Ballarat gold field was discovered by Thomas Hiscock at Buninyong, and by old John Dunlop and young James Regan at Poverty Point, and by Old Tom Brown of Connor’s Party at Golden Point. Chapter 4. The Genesis of Ballarat. How the diggers arrived, mined, lived, and governed themselves at Ballarat. Chapter 5. The Exodus from Ballarat. Why the diggers left Ballarat when they had found less than 1% of Ballarat’s gold. Chapter 6. The Monster Nuggets. Why Sarah Sands from Ballarat was introduced to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. Chapter 7. Settling Down on Ballarat. How and why some diggers settled permanently at Ballarat as miners. Mining in the year of Eureka. How the miners tackled the problems of shepherding and the mining consequences of the Eureka Stockade. Chapter 8. The Gravel Pits. How the miners of Ballarat Flat learnt to work ‘in the water.’ Chapter 9. Towards the Tableland. What the miners did when they hit a ‘wall of rock.’Relevance to the history of Ballarat, gold mining, Sovereign Hill and the Eureka Stockade.Paperback book; 176 pages. Front cover: red background; illustration of miners in white; author's and illustrator's names and title. btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, history - ballarat, history - gold mining, eureka stockade