Early arrival and success
The first record of a Chinese miner that shows up in an Assistant Gold Commissioner’s regular weekly reports for the Waranga goldfields appears in late April 1854. An unnamed Chinese man brought two nuggets into the Gold Office (which was then located in a tent). The nuggets weighed 17 oz 10 dwt (almost exactly half a kilo-gram) and 8 oz 10 dwt (nearly 250 g) respectively. For obvious reasons, the miner “would not disclose the (exact) locality” where he found the gold.1