Do you want to sell your Australian gold for cash?
Gold rushes changed the course of history. They brought enormous wealth to areas, boosted economic, industrial, and agricultural growth, and transitioned small towns into big cities bringing immigrants into gold-rich towns. Gold rushes also brought civil unrest, wars, economic inequality, social uprooting, pollution, environmental destruction.
Australia owns 17% of the world’s gold reserves and is the second-largest producer after China. Approximately 47% of Australian gold is jewellery and 24% is gold coins and bars.
Major gold rushes in history.
Some of the top gold producing countries today experienced gold rushes, between 1600 and 1900. Thousands of prospectors raced to find their fortune, leaving their country, families and work behind. In those days, g...