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These are the vaults built
to store the gold dug out of the
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Victorian landscape during the
gold rush. Gold that made a few
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rich, but broke the backs of
many others who dug for it. This
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is a place that was purpose
built to store up treasure. Gold
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has always been a treasure for
humanity since ancient times.
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But perhaps we should focus on a
different kind of treasure. Join
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me as we travel back to the
1850s gold rush days. Will we
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be able to resist gold fever?
This is Ballarat' s Sovereign
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Hill goldfield where we can
still find gold today using a
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flat metal pan as gold miners
around the world have done for
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centuries. At first gold was
used only by sacred priests in
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religious ceremonies and then
by royalty to show power and
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prestige. Then gold was used
as money and turned into coins.
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Sovereign Hill gets its name
because the gold found here was
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was melted down into sovereigns,
gold coins. And since the coins
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the ownership and
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use of gold was no longer just
for royals. It was now in the
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hands of the common people
who could touch it, feel it, buy
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things with it and pay their
debts with it. Gold coins became
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a treasure that anyone could
aspire to have. In this episode
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we will travel back to the 1850s
with the help of Sovereign Hill
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to learn just how gold fever
turned Australia upside down
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and how gold fever
still taunts us today.
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We've always had a fascination
with gold. The power of gold has
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inspired, seduced and
manipulated us for at least
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6000 years. The Egyptians were
casting gold bars as money as
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early as 4000 B.C. All through
history we have wanted gold to
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decorate religious objects, to
decorate important buildings and
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to decorate our bodies and
to use as money. The demand for
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gold has caused all kinds
of social change and havoc
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throughout history as people
took enormous risks to find this
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beautiful metal. Today in the
great gold mines of South Africa
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the shafts reach down as far as
4000 meters and the temperature
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reaches 54 degrees Celsius.
We have massive open cut gold
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mines in Australia and South
Africa, in countries such as
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Mongolia, Philippines, Indonesia
Ghana and Papua New Guinea.
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People living in poverty on
the fringes of the mining areas
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spend every day standing in mud
with a pan, or climb down into
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unstable dark holes with a pick
and homemade explosives looking
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to find flecks of gold that will
help their families survive. Is
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this gold fever
worth such sacrifice?
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Gold was discovered in Ballarat
in August 1851. It was found
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here in a place ironically
called Poverty Point. Within
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days news of the find had spread
to Melbourne and Julong. Within
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weeks eager prospectors were
making their way here from all
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corners of Australia. Within six
months news had spread around
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the world and people rushed
here from England, Europe and
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America. Nobody wanted to miss a
windfall. Eighteen fifty two was
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the year when there was nothing
but gold. Finding this gold was
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easy. Panning simply involved
washing dirt in a gold pan and
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as it tilted and swirled
loose dirt and gravel washed out
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leaving the heavier gold behind.
Larger quantities of dirt were
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rocked in a cradle to wash away
clay and gravel trapping the
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golden layer of blanket.
Over 600 tons of gold came from
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Ballarat' s goldfields. Ballarat
also became home to the second
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largest gold nugget ever found,
the massive 69 kg Welcome nugget
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When this piece of gold was
discovered no scales that were
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capable of weighing a nugget of
this size were available. So it
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was broken into three pieces
on an anvil. The nugget weighed
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about 72 kilos. At today's gold
price it would be worth about
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two and a half million dollars.
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When gold was discovered
it seemed that overnight the
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workers of Australia had gone
AWOL. Farms, building sites,
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ships, police barracks,
government offices, sheering
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sheds all were deserted. Schools
closed and postal services were
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forced to work with a skeleton
staff. News of Victoria's
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supposedly infinite supply
of gold was shared in newspapers
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and letters in London,
Edenborough, Dublin, Paris,
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Warsaw, Munich, Washington,
Toronto and Shanghai. And people
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rushed to Victoria. In 1851
Victoria had a population of
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77,000 people. By 1861, just 10
years later, the population of
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Victoria was 540,000, an
increase of over 800 percent
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which was half the population
of Australia. The gold fields
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became a melting pot
of humanity. Tradesmen and
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artisans set up shops and
established businesses to meet
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the needs and demands of the
miners. There were blacksmiths,
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candle makers, metal workers,
grocers and printers. And they
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came from all over the world.
Inspired by the lure of gold and
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a promise of a new life in a
new land. Thousands of fortune
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hunters from around the
world flooded into Victoria
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transforming the gold
fields into some of the most
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cosmopolitan places on earth.
The population expanded as more
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people arrived and settled and
established homes and businesses
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The streets and camps built
on gold grew into a prosperous
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bustling township soon to become
a fine provincial city. There
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was only one way that all of
these thousands of people from
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overseas could get to Victoria,
the gold fields and beyond. And
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that was by ship. The first year
after gold was discovered in
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Ballarat the number of ships
arriving in Port Phillip Bay
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more than doubled. One hundred
ships a day were sailing past
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Cape Otway light house. After
sailing over 20,000 km from
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Europe to Australia the final
obstacle for ship captains was
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the western entrance to Bass
Strait. This narrow stretch of
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water between Cape Otway and
King Island is just 90 km wide.
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Known as the Eye of the
Needle it is considered the most
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dangerous stretch of water in
the world and became an infamous
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graveyard for many sailing ships
Over 500 sailing ships were
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wrecked along this coast.
In fact over 80 ships were lost
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between Cape Otway and Port
Fairy alone. Most of these ships
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sank at night or in a howling
storm. Each of these ships
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faced the same treacherous
conditions along the shipwreck
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coast. The passengers and crew
knew all about the tragic ship
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wrecks but with no other option
for travel and spurred on by the
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lure of gold they continued
their journey placing their
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faith in the captain and hoping
that the weather would be mild
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so that they could make it
through the dangerous waters
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safely. When the weather
was rough every person on board
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would strain their eyes to see
the light shining from the Cape
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Otway lighthouse, the Lady Bay
Lighthouse in Warrnambool and
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other lighthouses dotted along
the ship wreck coast. For many
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the journey to Australia could
take seven or eight months and
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on the cheapest fair conditions
were tough. There were many
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epidemics of illness on the
ships and those who survived
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the journey arrived at the gold
fields weak and unfit for the
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hard life in the camps.
Fresh food was limited and clean
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water was in short supply.
Sewage was not properly taken
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care of and so the unsanitary
conditions meant that disease
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was common. But no matter
the cost people kept coming in
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droves, drawn by the promise of
gold. The gold found in Ballarat
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in the 1850s was exported to
Britain. It was enough gold to
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pay all Britain's foreign debts
and help lay the foundation of
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the enormous British commercial
expansion in the latter half of
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the century. The development
of Victoria as the state and the
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vibrancy of Melbourne is
intricately connected to the
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sheer enormity of gold that
was found in central Victoria.
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Melbourne continued to grow
exponentially for the next four
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decades and by 1890 it was the
largest and richest city in the
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British Empire after London. At
its peak some two tons of gold
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per week flowed into the
treasury building in Melbourne.
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Between 1851 and 1861 Australia
produced one-third of the
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world's gold. By the end of the
19th century Australia was the
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largest producer of gold in
the world. Here in the Victorian
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parliament house gold is used
everywhere for decoration. In
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fact, there's so much gold
here that it's valued at many
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millions of dollars. In a nearby
passage is a replica of the
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Welcome Stranger gold nugget.
Today Melbourne is a busy city,
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voted the most livable in the
world. No one talks of gold but
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it was the global desire for
gold and the power of gold fever
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that shaped the city and also
profoundly shaped Australia.
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The gold rush brought roads,
rail and the first telegraph.
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Much of the rest of the country
including Western Australia and
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Queensland were mapped and
settled in the name of gold
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exploration and prospecting.
The huge amount of wealth that
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flowed from central Victoria and
later southern western Australia
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would pay for the
industrialization and
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modernization of the entire
country. The desire for gold
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still shapes our world today.
The desire that promises so much
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but only delivers riches to a
few. Let's go back to 1851, the
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birth of Australia's gold fever.
The gold fields were a topsy
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turvy place where men could
become rich overnight. Wealth
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was being extracted from
the earth in great quantities.
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Ballarat was one of the richest
gold fields the world has known.
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If you walked on the world
famous Ballarat gold fields or
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into the tented camps in 1854
you would hear many different
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accents of a multifaceted
society: Italian, Irish, Dutch,
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Russian, English, German, Swiss,
French, American, Canadian and
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Chinese. They were fortune
seekers, entertainers and
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adventurers. The gold fields
was a noisy hive of activity.
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Thousands of dogs were barking
outside tents and mine shafts
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marking territory. Thousands of
cradles rocked the gold out of
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clay on either side of the creek
and diggers popped in and out
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of holes like frantic moles.
Hundreds of flags flapped in the
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wind on tents and stores in
the flats, on the hills, in the
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gully's, everywhere you looked
two or three flags were flying.
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Flags of all nations but mostly
the Union Jack. At night there
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was the twinkle of a thousand
campfires with talking and
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yelling at every camp. Sometime
during the night many guns and
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pistols would be fired to
release the frustration of the
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day and then the music started.
Accordions, concertinas, fiddles
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flutes, clarinets, cornets,
bugles all playing their own
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tune. The effect was deafening.
The early diggers of the 1850s
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were not the professional miners
of the 1860s a decade later.
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They were individual speculators
anxious about their families'
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living conditions, eager to make
their fortune with gold and go
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home. Gold mining was back
breaking, hard work with no
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guarantee of a find. You
could sink a shaft next to your
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neighbor, you could both wallow
in the dark and wet earth for
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five, six, nine months, bailing
out the constant seeping water
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and your neighbor might find
the gold infused river bed while
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your hole leads only to a bend
in the underground river missing
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the gold completely. He
wins, you lose. The space where
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someone was digging was called
a claim. To keep your claim a
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person had to work on it every
day except on Sundays. If no one
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was working a claim someone else
would come and take it. That
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practice was called
claim jumping. There was often
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violence on the gold fields with
thousands of people intent on
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making a fortune, all crammed
together in a small location,
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in rough accommodation
with few comforts, tensions rose
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easily. But as long as there was
gold people kept coming. As the
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alluvial gold on the surface ran
out gold, seekers were forced to
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look farther underground. Miners
discovered gold-bearing water
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courses that had been buried at
various depths by centuries of
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silting or volcanic action. Deep
mining was more difficult and
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dangerous. Places such as
Bendigo and Ballarat saw great
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concentrations of miners who
were forming partnerships and
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syndicates to enable them to
sink ever deeper shafts. It was
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tough and dangerous. Deep gold
mining continues in many places
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in the world today.
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We have always had a fascination
with gold. The power of gold has
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inspired seduced and manipulated
us for thousands of years. The
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Egyptians were casting gold bars
as money as early as 4000 B.C.
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All through history we
have wanted gold to decorate
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religious objects, to decorate
important buildings, to decorate
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our bodies and to use as money.
The demand for gold has caused
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all kinds of social change
and havoc throughout history as
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people took enormous risks to
find this beautiful metal. Gold
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is so soft it can be shaped with
a cold hammer, yet so strong
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that one troy ounce of gold can
be made into a wire that will
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stretch for 80 km which is
almost the distance between the
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gold fields here in Ballarat
to the gold decorated Victorian
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parliament house. Human history
is entwined with the desire for
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gold. The miner's legend is
about a king who desired gold so
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much that he asked that
everything he touched would turn
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to gold and then was devastated
when he held his precious
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daughter and she turned to
gold. When Moses came down from
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Mt. Sinai to deliver the 10
commandments to his people he
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found the Jews in a delirium
worshiping a golden calf. He was
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so enraged to see them bowing
to an icon, an idol like those
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worshiped by the hated
Egyptians that he smashed the 10
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commandments that he had just
brought down from Mt. Sinai.
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King Solomon enjoyed lavishing
gold on his personal possessions
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His shields were made of gold.
His ivory throne was overlaid
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with gold and he sipped his wine
from golden vessels. When the
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Queen of Sheba came to visit
Solomon she brought him around
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three tons of gold. Solomon
oversaw the construction of a
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temple made of stone and cedar
overlaid with gold. Everything
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was covered with gold, floors,
walls, ceilings. It took more
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than 183,000 men seven years
to construct. There probably
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hasn't been a building built
that could match its splendor.
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Solomon's golden temple
was defaced. Part of it is the
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wailing wall in Jerusalem today.
But in A.D. 532 more than 12
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metric tons of gold was used to
build the church of St. Sophia
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in Constantinople, modern
day Istanbul, causing Emperor
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Justinian to exclaim, Solomon
I have surpassed thee. Here
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today way down in the vault
built to store the gold dug out
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of the Victorian
landscape during the gold rush.
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Gold that made a
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few rich but broke the backs
of many others who dug for it.
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This is a place that was
purpose built to store up
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treasure. The Bible mentions
gold many times. We know details
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about Solomon's temple from Old
Testament writings but it also
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suggests that we should focus
on a different kind of treasure.
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Here's what it says in Matthew
chapter 6 verses 19 to 21:
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We should treasure spiritual
realities far above any kind of
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earthly treasure. By spiritual
realities I mean immensely
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important things like
forgiveness, fellowship with God
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the power of prayer, the
development of character and
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moral excellence, the love
of God, the hope of heaven,
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honoring Christ in all you do.
Our lives should be governed by
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our affection for these things
made available to us by Jesus.
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Yes, we have to earn money and
use money. We have to have food,
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shelter, transportation, and
health care. We can have nice
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things and save money, but we
must remember that all of these
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things are so very temporary.
So our heart ought to be
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controlled by heavenly treasures
spiritual blessings, treasure
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which cannot be touched by moth,
rust or robber and will last
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forever. Where is your treasure?
Is it in earthly things, is it
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in money, possessions, the
latest gadget or is it in heaven
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in the person of Jesus? If you'd
like that heavenly treasure,
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treasure that lasts forever,
why not ask for it right now
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as we pray?
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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you
for your love and goodness to
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us. Thank you for reminding us
of the importance of getting our
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priorities right and building up
treasures in heaven. Help us not
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to be consumed by the glamour
and glitter of the things of
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this world, but rather focus
on those things that will last
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forever. We ask this
in Jesus' name. Amen.
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We're all interested in gold
and treasure. We want that pot
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of gold at the end of the
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You want a better life, a
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for the former
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