<P> In 1837, gold and silver ore was found about 30 miles (48 km) from Segenhoe near Aberdeen . The find was described in the newspapers as the discovery of a gold and silver mine about 30 miles from Thomas Potter Macqueen's Segenhoe Estate, by a Russian stockman employed in the neighbourhood of the discovery, which was located on Crown land . </P> <P> Paweł Strzelecki, geologist and explorer, found small amounts of gold in silicate in 1839 at the Vale of Clwyd near Hartley, a location on the road to Bathurst . </P> <P> Gold is believed to have been found in Northern Tasmania at The Den (formerly known as Lefroy or Nine Mile Springs) near George Town in 1840 by a convict . In the 1880s, this became known as the Lefroy goldfields . </P> <P> The Reverend William Branwhite Clarke found gold on the Coxs River, a location on the road to Bathurst, in 1841 . In 1842 he found gold on the Wollondilly River . In 1843, Clarke spoke to many people of the abundance of gold likely to be found in the colony of New South Wales . On 9 April 1844, Clarke exhibited a sample of gold in quartz to Governor Sir George Gipps . In that same year, Clarke showed the sample and spoke of the probable abundance of gold to some members of the New South Wales Legislative Council including Justice Roger Therry, the member for Camden and Joseph Phelps Robinson, then member for the Town of Melbourne . In evidence that Clarke gave before a Select Committee of the NSW Legislative Council in September 1852, he stated that the subject was not followed up as "the matter was regarded as one of curiosity only, and considerations of the penal character of the colony kept the subject quiet, as much as the general ignorance of the value of such an indication ." Towards the end of 1853, Clarke was given a grant of £ 1000 by the New South Wales government for his services in connection with the discovery of gold . The same amount (£ 1000) was voted by the Victorian Gold Discovery Committee in 1854 . </P>

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