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The Buckland Valley Gold Fields History
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 648310" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>There were a few hundred diggers there in the intervening years to 1857 when the Chinese moved in. The "Colonial Fever" was typhoid in Victoria, typhus in northern Australia (two different things). I am doubtful that typhoid was the reason that it was shunned for years - more likely rich alluvial gold returns had diminished. The reason for rejuvenation in 1857 was probably because the influx was Chinese, and they were very efficient miners who would re-work low-grade gold left by earlier European diggers. In 1857 they greatly outnumbered the Europeans, but 100 miners attacked their camp and burnt it to the ground and they fled to the hills. Three Chinese died (they were ill when they fled and it was very cold).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 648310, member: 4386"] There were a few hundred diggers there in the intervening years to 1857 when the Chinese moved in. The "Colonial Fever" was typhoid in Victoria, typhus in northern Australia (two different things). I am doubtful that typhoid was the reason that it was shunned for years - more likely rich alluvial gold returns had diminished. The reason for rejuvenation in 1857 was probably because the influx was Chinese, and they were very efficient miners who would re-work low-grade gold left by earlier European diggers. In 1857 they greatly outnumbered the Europeans, but 100 miners attacked their camp and burnt it to the ground and they fled to the hills. Three Chinese died (they were ill when they fled and it was very cold). [/QUOTE]
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