Lauren Bourke, head of collections at the Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections in Ballarat, snaps on plastic gloves ...

While that gold rush saw the extraction ... A road trip through Central Victoria’s Goldfields region takes you to 19th-century boom towns like Bendigo, Ballarat and Castlemaine.

Could this gold rush icon become Ballarat’s next luxury hotel ... provided they aligned with Heritage Victoria regulations. “Any transformation would need to be aligned with heritage ...

Ballarat’s gold rush brought people and money in the 1800s ... Melbourne University urban planning professor Alan March said most places in Victoria did not have mandatory height limits ...

Luke Phillips found the almost-1kg nugget in bushland near Ballarat in Victoria's Goldfields region ... The Goldfields region experienced a gold rush between 1851 and 1871 with the Australian ...

A metal detectorist has unearthed "the find of a lifetime" hidden under a rotting log and three feet of dirt. Luke Phillips, who runs the popular YouTube channel Dig It Detecting, was out hunting ...

Now an art gallery in the regional Victorian city of Ballarat is hoping it has struck gold with a new exhibition ... economic winner for regional Victoria, bringing in $530 million to the economy ...

Ballarat and Wedderburn. Victoria was once home to thousands of migrants during the Gold Rush, but modern-day detectors continue to do it for the thrill. Australia’s population skyrocketed from ...