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From Eitan, who led the walk “Castlemaine Gold:

I have just watched S1E3 “The Goldfield Track” of the “Great Australian Walks with Julia Zemiro” – See https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/watch/2241487939947

Some anecdotes from the show: 

• In the early 1850s, 90,000 miners were looking for gold in the Victorian goldfields.
• 2,000,000Kg of gold was dug in the Victorian goldfields between 1851 to 1896. 
• By 1859, one in five Victorian men was from China.
• In the 1850s, Castlemaine had a bigger population than Melbourne.
• Extract from factsheet—eureka-reef-heritage-walk.pdf: 16,000,000kg of ore was dug in the Eureka Reef between 1871 to 1878 – but it only yielded 175Kg of gold.