Gold miners and mining

The following resources all feature information about how people made their way to the goldfields:

• Ergo: transport describes the process of getting to the goldfields
• eGold: social and domestic life discusses:
  • The journey from Melbourne to the diggings
  • The journey from the United Kingdom to Australia
  • Cobb & Co. coaches
  • Gold escorts
  • Railways
• Murray's guide to the gold diggings: where they are and how to get to them is a guide book from 1852
• Life on the goldfields: on the road includes quotes from diggers' diaries describing their journey to the diggings
• Gold! Immigration and population includes information about Chinese migration and 'changes to the law which made it impossible for Chinese miners to arrive at Victorian ports. As a consequence many Chinese miners travelled hundreds of miles overland from South Australia to the diggings in Victoria'
• Overland gold looks at how people travelled from South Australia to the Victorian goldfields in 1851-52.

Useful maps of Victoria showing the routes to major goldfields:

• The digger's road guide to the gold mines of Victoria and the country extending 210 miles round Melbourne (1853)
• Ham's squatting map of Victoria (1853)

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