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al pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 surviving the gold rush 2 by region toggle by region subsection 2 1 australia and new zealand 2 2 finland 2 3 north america 2 4 africa 2 5 south america and the caribbean 3 mining industry today 4 by date toggle by date subsection 4 1 before 1860 4 2 1860s 4 3 1870s 4 4 1880s 4 5 1890s 4 6 20th century 4 7 21st century 5 see also 6 references 7 further reading 8 external links toggle the table of contents gold rush 44 languages العربية azərbaycanca беларуская тарашкевіца беларуская català čeština dansk deutsch esperanto español eesti euskara فارسی suomi français gaeilge galego עברית हिन्दी magyar bahasa indonesia italiano 日本語 ქართული 한국어 lietuvių latviešu bahasa melayu nederlands norsk bokmål occitan ਪੰਜਾਬੀ polski português română русский srpskohrvatski српскохрватски simple english slovenčina svenska türkçe українська tiếng việt 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia redirected from gold rush gold discovery triggering an onrush of miners seeking fortune for other uses see gold rush disambiguation this article is about gold rushes in general for the most notable example see california gold rush the fastest clipper ships cut the travel time from new york to san francisco from seven months to four months in the 1849 california gold rush 1 a gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare earth minerals that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in australia greece venezuela new zealand brazil chile south africa the united states and canada while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere in the 19th century the wealth that resulted was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry while gold mining itself proved unprofitable for most diggers and mine owners some people amassed fortunes and merchants and transportation facilities made large profits the resulting increase in the world s gold supply stimulated global trade and investment historians have written extensively about the mass migration trade colonization and environmental history associated with gold rushes 2 gold rushes were typically marked by a general buoyant feeling of a free for all in income mobility in which any single individual might become abundantly wealthy almost instantly as expressed in the california dream gold rushes helped spur waves of immigration that often led to the permanent settlement of new regions activities propelled by gold rushes define significant aspects of the culture of the australian and north american frontiers at a time when the world s money supply was based on gold the newly mined gold provided economic stimulus far beyond the goldfields feeding into local and wider economic booms the gold rush was a topic that inspired many tv shows and books considering it was a very important topic at the time during various gold rushes many books were published including the call of the wild which had much success during the period gold rushes occurred as early as the times of ancient greece whose gold mining was described by diodorus siculus and pliny the elder surviving the gold rush edit a man leans over a wooden sluice rocks line the outside of the wood boards that create the sluice swedish gold panners by the blackfoot river montana in the 1860s jets of water at a placer mine in dutch flat california sometime between 1857 and 1870 within each mining rush there is typically a transition through progressively higher capital expenditures larger organizations and more specialized knowledge a rush typically begins with the discovery of placer gold made by an individual at first the gold may be washed from the sand and gravel by individual miners with little training using a gold pan or similar simple instrument once it is clear that the volume of gold bearing sediment is larger than a few cubic metres the placer miners will build rockers or sluice boxes with which a small group can wash gold from the sediment many times faster than using gold pans winning the gold in this manner requires almost no capital investment only a simple pan or equipment that may be built on the spot and only simple organisation the low investment the high value per unit weight of gold and the ability of gold dust and gold nuggets to serve as a medium of exchange allow placer gold rushes to occur even in remote locations after the sluice box stage placer mining may become increasingly large scale requiring larger organisations and higher capital expenditures small claims owned and mined by individuals may need to be merged into larger tracts difficult to reach placer deposits may be mined by tunnels water may be diverted by dams and canals to placer mine active river beds or to deliver water needed to wash dry placers the more advanced techniques of ground sluicing hydraulic mining and dredging may be used typically the heyday of a placer gold rush would last only a few years the free gold supply in stream beds would become depleted somewhat quickly and the initial phase would be followed by prospecting for veins of lode gold that were the original source of the placer gold hard rock mining like placer mining may evolve from low capital investment and simple technology to progressively higher capital and technology the surface outcrop of a gold bearing vein may be oxidized so that the gold occurs as native gold and the ore needs only to be crushed and washed free milling ore the first miners may at first build a simple arrastra to crush their ore later they may build stamp mills to crush ore at greater speed as the miners venture downwards they may find that the deeper part of vein contains gold locked in sulfide or telluride minerals which will require smelting if the ore is still sufficiently rich it may be worth shipping to a distant smelter direct shipping ore lower grade ore may require on site treatment to either recover the gold or to produce a concentrate sufficiently rich for transport to the smelter as the district turns to lower grade ore the mining may change from underground mining to large open pit mining many silver rushes followed upon gold rushes as transportation and infrastructure improve the focus may change progressively from gold to silver to base metals in this way leadville colorado started as a placer gold discovery achieved fame as a silver mining district then relied on lead and zinc in its later days butte montana began mining placer gold then became a silver mining district then became for a time the world s largest copper producer by region edit australia and new zealand edit main article australian gold rushes ballarat s tent city in the summer of 1853 54 oil painting from an original sketch by eugene von guerard various gold rushes occurred in australia over the second half of the 19th century the most significant of these although not the only ones were the new south wales gold rush and victorian gold rush in 1851 3 and the western australian gold rushes of the 1890s they were highly significant to their respective colonies political and economic development as they brought many immigrants and promoted massive government spending on infrastructure to support the new arrivals who came looking for gold while some found their fortune those who did not often remained in the colonies and took advantage of extremely liberal land laws to take up farming a chart showing the great nuggets of victoria at museums victoria gold rushes happened at or around ballarat victoria bathurst new south wales beechworth victoria bendigo victoria canoona queensland charters towers queensland coolgardie western australia gympie queensland gulgong new south wales halls creek western australia hill end new south wales kalgoorlie western australia queenstown tasmania in new zealand the otago gold rush from 1861 attracted prospectors from the california gold rush and the victorian gold rush and many moved on to the west coast gold rush from 1864 finland edit main article lapland gold rush gold prospecting at the ivalo river in 1898 the first references of gold in the finnish lapland date back to the early 16th century when gold was discovered from utsjoki but its presence not widely known until the 19th century 4 the actual gold rush started in the valley of the ivalo river in 1870 and lasted for a few years although the scale of the gold rush is not comparable to the major 19th century gold rushes the lapland gold rush has great local significance in lapland and across finland 5 during the spring and the summer in 1870 about 500 gold prospectors who traveled hundreds of kilometers by ski foot or boat to the gold prospecting area made their way through lapland to the ivalo river 6 to regulate the rush the government of grand duchy of finland then part of imperial russia established a headquarters for the authorities and service point for the prospectors called the kultala crown station in kultala lit town of gold the officials issued licenses for prospectors and purchased their gold and there were also law enforcement officers and cartographers as well as a restaurant and post office 5 at its largest the number of government officials and gold prospectors was approximately 600 people this was a significant community as lapland was mostly uninhabited wilderness and the largest populated places contained only up to few hundred people 6 another famous gold prospecting sites were the lemmenjoki river in the inari municipality and the tankavaara village founded in 1934 in the sodankylä municipality 5 north america edit further information gold mining in the united states and klondike gold rush the first significant gold rush in the united states was in cabarrus county north carolina east of charlotte in 1799 at today s reed s gold mine 7 thirty years later in 1829 the georgia gold rush in the southern appalachians occurred it was followed by the california gold rush of 1848 55 in the sierra nevada which captured the popular imagination the california gold rush led to an influx of gold miners and newfound gold wealth which led to california s rapid industrialization as businesses sprung up to serve the increased population and financial and political institutions to handle the increased wealth 8 one of these political institutions was statehood the need for new laws in a sparsely governed land led to the state s rapid entry into the union in 1850 9 the gold rush in 1849 also stimulated worldwide interest in prospecting for gold leading to further rushes in australia south africa wales and scotland successive gold rushes occurred in western north america fraser canyon the cariboo district and other parts of british columbia in nevada in the rocky mountains in colorado idaho montana eastern oregon and western new mexico territory and along the lower colorado river there was a gold rush in nova scotia 1861 1876 which produced nearly 210 000 ounces of gold 10 resurrection creek near hope alaska was the site of alaska s first gold rush in the mid 1890s 11 other notable alaska gold rushes were nome fairbanks and the fortymile river miners and prospectors ascend the chilkoot trail during the klondike gold rush one of the last great gold rushes was the klondike gold rush in the yukon territory 1896 99 this gold rush is featured in the novels of jack london and charlie chaplin s film the gold rush robert william service depicted in his poetries the gold rush especially in the book the trail of 98 12 the main goldfield was along the south flank of the klondike river near its confluence with the yukon river near what was to become dawson city in yukon territory but it also helped open up the relatively new us possession of alaska to exploration and settlement and promoted the discovery of other gold finds the most successful of the north american gold rushes was the porcupine gold rush in timmins ontario area this gold rush was unique compared to others by the method of extraction of the gold placer mining techniques were not able to be used to access the gold in the area due to it being embedded into the canadian shield so larger mining operations involving significantly more expensive equipment was required while this gold rush peaked in the 1940s and 1950s it is still active today with over 200 million 13 ounces of gold having been produced from the region the gold deposits in this area are identified as one of the largest in the world 14 africa edit in south africa the witwatersrand gold rush in the transvaal was important to that country s history leading to the founding of johannesburg and tensions between the boers and british settlers as well as the chinese miners 15 south african gold production went from zero in 1886 to 23 of the total world output in 1896 at the time of the south african rush gold production benefited from the newly discovered techniques by scottish chemists the macarthur forrest process of using potassium cyanide to extract gold from low grade ore 16 south america and the caribbean edit 5 gram gold coin from tierra del fuego issued by julius popper further information brazilian gold rush and tierra del fuego gold rush with the arrival of nicolás de ovando s settlement expedition in 1502 the construction of the first colonial society in the hispaniola island began focused on the search for and exploitation of gold of cibao valley the influx of immigrants was massive until 1510 when the island s gold production reached its peak the mining industry rested on the forced work of the taíno indigenous who quickly became extinct with the decline of the taíno labor force and the depletion of deposits gold production also declined surpassing that of puerto rico and cuba by the second decade of the century 17 the gold mine at el callao venezuela started in 1871 was for a time one of the richest in the world and the goldfields as a whole saw over a million ounces exported between 1860 and 1883 the gold mining was dominated by immigrants from the british isles and the british west indies giving an appearance of almost creating an english colony on venezuelan territory between 1883 and 1906 tierra del fuego experienced a gold rush attracting many chileans argentines and europeans to the archipelago the gold rush began in 1884 following discovery of gold during the rescue of the french steamship arctique near cape virgenes 18 mining industry today edit there are about 10 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