Mining

Commissioner's Tent, Forest Creek, University of Ballarat Art Collection.

The Miner's Right replaced the Gold License on 01 May 1855 and cost one pound per annum. a digger holding a Miner's Right could dig for gold, and had the right to take a parcel of land and erect a cottage on it with garden. It also gave the right to graze animals on a Goldfield Commons, and on vacant Crown Land.