LIFE ON THE GOLDFIELDS
BY DANIS
Life On The Goldfields
life on the goldfields was tough. Finding gold is not that easy like you think it is. If you don't have a license you will be in big trouble by the police on the goldfields. Goldfields is not the place for women and children . On the goldfields miners eat damper as well as meats and other vegetables
The tools used in gold minings
Miners used metal picks, shovels, gold pan and cradle. Diggers who worked on the Californian goldfields in the 1840s brought their tools to Australia.
Chinese on the goldfields
7000 Chinese worked in the Araluen gold fields in Southern NSW. Chinese diggers often travelled in large groups with a cook, a barber, and a scribe who could read and speak english.
Womens on the goldfields
Most of the diggers left their families behind which is sad, but one quarter of the people on the Australian goldfields in 1852 were women. Many wives dug for the gold with their husbands.