Luke Phillips, who runs the popular YouTube channel Dig It Detecting, was out hunting for gold in the Ballarat bush in May when he came across an old miner's hole dating back more than 150 years ...

Ballarat is well known for its gold rush history and colonial-era heritage buildings ... Also look out for the historic Ballarat Tramway Museum (and take a short ride), plus the Ballarat Botanical ...

According to researcher Leigh McKinnon from the Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo, Victoria, there were only around 140 Chinese people living in the state two years before the gold rush.