Gold Rush Impressions: Ararat, Ballarat, Castlemaine
R. Brough Smyth, Secretary of the Colony of Victoria's Mines Department, first 'recommended that a competent officer be employed to construct a sketch map of the Cape Patterson coalfield' in South Gippsland ... 'Ferdinand Krause (1841-1918), Mining Surveyor, Ararat Division, was appointed to this task in December 1871 and in the next year continued with the Otway region and then commenced mapping the Ararat goldfield. Reginald Murray, now a mining surveyor, was instructed to survey the Sandhurst goldfield and followed on with Ballarat ... these officers were engaged fulltime in geological surveying, and late in 1873 Smyth was able to appoint Norman Taylor as a third geological surveyor.' (i) ARARAT GOLD FIELD (ii) BALLARAT GOLD FIELD (iv) CASTLEMAINE GOLD FIELD