Resource directory for gold prospecting, gold history and exploring the Victorian Goldfields

• General guide to gold prospecting in the Victorian Goldfields
• Ballarat gold prospecting guide
• Castlemaine gold prospecting guide
• Maryborough gold prospecting guide
• Dunolly and Moliagul gold prospecting guide
• Inglewood and Wedderburn gold prospecting guide

Places to look for gold in the Victorian Goldfields

• Detailed information on some of the places good for gold prospecting in Victoria's Golden Triangle
• Lots of locations where you can prospect in the Victorian Goldfields
• Interactive map showing lots of places to prospect in the Victorian Goldfields

Gold panning and sluicing in the Victorian Goldfields

Gold maps

• Online directory of Victorian gold maps
• Gold prospecting maps for Victoria's State and National Parks
• Historical gold maps of the Victorian Goldfields
• Historical gold maps of the Western Australian goldfields
• Historical gold maps of the New South Wales goldfields
• How to read historical gold maps

General gold prospecting information

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• The dark side of the Victorian Goldfields
• Interview with Raymo, The Victorian Historical Mine Shaft Chasers Inc
• Gift ideas for gold prospectors
• Fool's gold
• Tiddles the duck and his goldfields adventures

• 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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