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Can Alaia Find Real Gold?
DIG • PAN • DISCOVER
Alaia steps back in time to the Australian gold rush, pans a creek for real flakes of gold, and finds out why thousands of people once raced to Ballarat.
📍 Sovereign Hill, Ballarat • Victoria
The journey
- 🚗Drive to BallaratAbout 90 minutes from Melbourne.
- 🎩Step into 1850A whole town dressed the way it was in the gold rush.
- 🥣Pan the creekSwirl, tip, swirl — gold is heavy, so it sinks.
- 🕯️Into the mineDeep tunnels lit by lanterns.
- 🪙Weigh the findEven tiny flakes count!
🤯 Amazing facts
- ✨Gold is about 19 times heavier than water, which is why panning works.
- ✨The Welcome Nugget found in Ballarat weighed more than a 7-year-old child.
- ✨People came from England, Ireland, China and India to dig for Australian gold.
🧠 What did you discover?
Why does gold sink to the bottom of the pan?
Which Australian state is Sovereign Hill in?