| We identified the person in the photograph as Mary McCloskey, a young girl who sought her fortune in the California goldfields as a forty-niner. |
| A map of Victoria in 1869 showed most of the colony, except for the Western District and the central goldfields, still under forest cover. |
| The 45-year-old mother of four is a millionaire entrepreneur who made her fortune as a brothel madam on the Kalgoorlie goldfields. |
| There was rapid growth in the town in the 1860s as miners going to or from the Central Otago goldfields came to the town. |
| On behalf of the industry, Christie welcomed conference attendees to the Klondike goldfields. |
| It was built to satisfy the demand for an improved route to the goldfields on the West Coast. |
