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    during the California gold rush and would be used later at Nome. Jet of water washing down a hillside, 1898 Mining with sluices on hillside at Klondike, 1898...
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    The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899...
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  • the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies, mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, as well as in the...
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    the California Gold Rush and the Colorado Gold Rush, the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush. Placer mining continues in many areas of...
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    and the biggest town in Alaska. Together with the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899) and Fairbanks Gold Rush (1903–1911), Nome was among the biggest gold rushes...
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    Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning...
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    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...
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  • The Klondike Gold Rush is commemorated through film, literature, historical parks etc. The Tr’ondëk-Klondike World Heritage Site, a UNESCO World Heritage...
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    Coast California Mining and Mineral Museum Colorado Gold Rush Doré bar Gold in California Klondike Gold Rush Witwatersrand Gold Rush Footnotes A New Jersey...
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  • The Black Hills gold rush took place in Dakota Territory in the United States. It began in 1874 following the Custer Expedition and reached a peak in...
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    Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880. This period in the history of New South Wales...
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    prospecting without staking a mining claim.[citation needed] The traditional methods of prospecting involved combing through the countryside, often through...
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  • Gold mining in Alaska, a state of the United States, has been a major industry and impetus for exploration and settlement since a few years after the...
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    kind of square gold coin. In Roman metallurgy, new methods for extracting gold on a large scale were developed by introducing hydraulic mining methods, especially...
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    A gold dredge is a placer mining machine that extracts gold from sand, gravel, and dirt using water and mechanical methods. The original gold dredges...
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    Soapy Smith (category People of the Klondike Gold Rush)
    National Historic Landmark, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Skagway, Alaska (PDF). Anchorage, Alaska: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park...
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    deal wash away with the soil: A newly paved highway has sparked a Klondike-style gold rush in Peru's rich rain forest, threatening the country's chances...
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    The Nome mining district, also known as the Cape Nome mining district, is a gold mining district in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was discovered in 1898...
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    Jack London (redirect from Flush of Gold)
    Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also...
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    Robert W. Service (category People of the Klondike Gold Rush)
    him to the Yukon, he was inspired by tales of the Klondike Gold Rush, and wrote two poems, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"...
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    Although the development and settlement of Alaska grew slowly, the discovery of goldfields during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896, Nome Gold Rush in 1898...
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  • Thomas W. O'Brien (category People of the Klondike Gold Rush)
    Klondike gold rush entrepreneur who was best known for his Klondike Mines Railway and Klondike brewery businesses. He was also elected as a member of...
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  • residents of the coal mining industry. It was the home to gold and silver mine investors, like Winfield Scott Stratton and William Jackson Palmer. The Midland...
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  • Golden Giant Mine (category Gold mines in Ontario)
    camp in the early 1980s, starting a staking rush not seen in Canada since the Klondike gold rush of the late 19th century. Two companies, Golden Sceptre...
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    Alexander Pantages (category People of the Klondike Gold Rush)
    Yukon Territory during the Klondike Gold Rush, ending up in the mining boom-town of Dawson City. In his time in the bitter cold of Dawson City, he worked...
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    Mary Evelyn Hitchcock (category People of the Klondike Gold Rush)
    mining methods. Mary Evelyn Hitchcock died April 6, 1920, and was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, Massachusetts. Two women in the Klondike :...
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    The oil rush in America started in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the Oil Creek Valley when Edwin L. Drake struck "rock oil" there in 1859. Titusville and...
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  • standard, and that the 1848 California Gold Rush, 1886 Witwatersrand Gold Rush in South Africa and the 1896–99 Klondike Gold Rush helped alleviate such...
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    fifth by value. The Northwest Territories (NWT) has had a long history with resource extraction, from the fur trade to the Klondike gold rush and mineral...
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    selling gold from the Treasury and buying up wartime bonds in April 1869. He also initiated reforms in the Treasury Department by improving methods of tax...
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