Ken's Blog

Few prospectors ever made their fortune actually looking for gold. Rather, the real money lay in the service industries, the infrastructure, that sprang up. Purveyors of tools and equipment. Hotels. Today, nothing has really changed in these parts. Apart from the commodity sought. No longer gold.

Tags: Gold Rush, Queensland

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