Miners Hit the Mother Lode In Western Australia
The big gold rush of Australia in the 1800s was spurred on by the discovery of gold nuggets. The stories that people told about how there are gold nuggets strewn all over Western Australia drew many prospectors from all over the world. Everyone wanted to make their fortunes and many did. But the small prospectors and miners were soon shoved out by mining companies who took the gold rush to another level by opening actual dig sites and getting the gold from the belly of the earth. The odds of stumbling upon a gold nugget with a metal detector and...