Golden sands, Chinese miners and a buried past

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Some historians believe the White Australia policy played a part in covering over the early history of Chinese miners in Australia.

As the central gold mines in Victoria and New South Wales were exhausted, the Chinese miners worked their way up the east coast in search of new claims.

"It's the working cooperatively at a larger scale that the Europeans found difficult to understand," she said. "That meant the Chinese could then take on those claims and they were finding gold where Europeans had thought there wasn't any — it was really a different way of working."Once the gold mines were exhausted, Dr Schamberger said some miners returned to China, some relocated to different goldfields, while others stayed and set up businesses.

"They knew how to grow vegetables and farm, so they went back to something that they were used to — and they often provided food for entire towns."

 

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