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There are lots of resources across the Goldfields Guide website which are useful for both gold prospectors and those interested in exploring the history and features of the Victorian Goldfields. This handy directory lists some of the most popular gold-related pages on Goldfields Guide, making it easier for you to find what you're after.
Gold prospecting
- Guide to gold prospecting in the Victorian Goldfields
- Where to look for gold in Victoria's Golden Triangle
- Places to prospect in the Victorian Goldfields
- Interactive map showing lots of places to prospect in the Victorian Goldfields
- Gold-bearing creeks and rivers in Victoria
- Gold prospecting maps for Victoria's State and National Parks
- Historical gold maps of the Victorian Goldfields
- Researching gold prospecting and history - online resources
- Surfacing in the Victorian Goldfields
- Gold shops, detector hire and gold tours in the Victorian Goldfields
- YouTube channels from the Victorian Goldfields
- Dangers of mine shafts in the Victorian Goldfields
Places to explore
- Gold history locations on Goldfields Guide
- Mining ruins and relics throughout the Central Goldfields
- Abandoned mines of the Victorian Goldfields
- Victoria's underground mine tours
- Visit Maldon, Victoria's grand and gorgeous gold town
- Wallaby Mine Gold Battery
- Educational locations in the Victorian Goldfields
- Fascinating cemeteries of the Victorian Goldfields
- Goldfields Guide's top 10
- Browse all locations on Goldfields Guide (over 300 places to explore and counting)
Goldfields history
- Diaries and memoirs from the Victorian gold rush
- The Welcome Stranger gold nugget
- Puddling machines of the Victorian Goldfields
- The moral state of the diggings during the Victorian gold rush
- Gold rush poem, 1851. The Rhyme of the Melbourne Mania
- License evasion, treachery and triumph on the Mt Alexander diggings, 1852
- Children of the Victorian gold rush
- The treacherous Black Forest, Victoria
- Captain Melville, the Bushranger of Melville Caves
Miscellaneous
Just for fun
- Jokes about gold, prospecting and mining
- Aussie river gems - a prospectors guide
- The Maryborough Ghost
- April Fools hoax in Creswick, 1873
- The wizard miners of the 16th century, De Re Metallica
Holidays throughout history in the Victorian Goldfields
- Christmas on the goldfields
- The golden Christmas cake, 1872
- The Christmas Gift gold nugget, 1877
- Easter Monday celebrations in 19th century Victoria
- Victoria's Easter Grinch, 1865
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