Albert Goldfield

There were other finds at Good Friday, Easter Monday, Nuggerty, Pioneer Reef and Warratta Creek.

Miners either took their dirt to one of the towns to use water to pan for the gold, or used a method called dry blowing,[2] which is an adaptation of the agricultural technique of winnowing.

A contemporary description of the dry blowing process used at Mount Browne in 1881 states that miners there went to work with "a small broom made of twigs and a tin dish".

A miner would use his broom to sweep dust and rock fragments from surface exposures of slate and collect it in the tin dish.

"[3] Life on the goldfields was hard, water was scarce, fresh fruit and vegetables were unavailable, and basic commodities, such as flour, were very expensive.