Europeans were well aware of Australia's enormous gold deposits since the Economic Revolution, when the continent's doors opened up. It was the post-collapse state of anarchy that allowed them to colonise it, making this gold accessible to colonists. When referring to the Australian Gold Rush, one should be talking about the entire colonial period. Despite enormous findings of coal, iron, fertile soil and later oil, gold continued to be the prime drive of colonisation until its end due to the era's omnipresent gold standard currencies. However, there were a few true rushes. For example, in 1851 the English prospector Edward Hargraves discovered a nugget of gold the size of a man in the modern region of Balanotog, which runs through the Great Dividing Range. This discovery resonated throughout European newspapers and courts, with the resulting immigration's scale never being seen before in history. It is after the 1851 gold rush that Oceanyka's two sided status quo is finally broken permanently, ending millennia of war between aboriginals and Ferozen.
