Tom Cue (c.1850 – 1920) was a
gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...
prospector
Prospector may refer to:
Space exploration
* Prospector (spacecraft), a planned lunar probe, canceled in 1962
* ''Lunar Prospector'', a NASA spacecraft
Trains
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from
Western Australia
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. The town of
Cue is named after him for his discovery of gold in its area in 1892.
His best finding was in 1895 in an area he named Woronga, called by others Cue's Patch (referring to the rich patch of shallow alluvial gold there). As there was already a town named after him the town eventually became known as
Agnew.
References
External links
Gold-net - Ghost towns of Western Australia*
Explorers of Western Australia
Gold prospectors
Australian gold prospectors
1850 births
1920 deaths
People from Victoria (state)
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