• A silver rush is the silver-mining equivalent of a gold rush, where the discovery of silver-bearing ore sparks a mass migration of individuals seeking...
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  • The Cobalt silver rush was a silver rush in Ontario, Canada that began in 1903 when huge veins of silver were discovered by workers on the Temiskaming...
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    Chilean silver mining grew at an unprecedented pace which transformed mining into one of the country's principal sources of wealth. The rush caused rapid...
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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 California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma...
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    Silver Thursday was an event that occurred in the United States silver commodity markets on Thursday, March 27, 1980, following the attempt by brothers...
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    The Witwatersrand Gold Rush was a gold rush that began in 1886 and led to the establishment of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was a part of the Mineral...
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  • Bishop Exchange Rushing Silver ☖ pieces in hand: 角 ☗ pieces in hand: 角 In shogi, Bishop Exchange Rushing Silver (角換わり早繰り銀 kakugawari hayakurigin) is a...
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  • Rushing Silver configuration ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: – Rushing Silver (早繰り銀 hayakuri gin, also Rapid Advancing Silver) is a shogi attacking...
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    The Carolina gold rush, the first gold rush in the United States, followed the discovery of a large gold nugget in North Carolina in 1799, by a 12-year-old...
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    Silver mining is the extraction of silver by mining. Silver is a precious metal and holds high economic value. Because silver is often found in intimate...
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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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    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 Pike's Peak gold rush (later known as the Colorado gold rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas...
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    Osmond. In December 2015, Silver Rush raised over approximately $130,000 for Mitchell's Journey. In December 2016, Silver Rush raised over approximately...
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    Retrieved 2022-04-15. Kline, Greg (April 20, 2003). "Mosaic started Web rush, Internet boom". The News-Gazette. Archived from the original on June 13...
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    troy ounces. The Porcupine rush, along with the Cobalt Silver Rush and Kirkland Lake Gold Rush, all in the early 20th century, drove most of the settlement...
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    A diamond rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area where diamonds were newly discovered. Major diamond rushes took place in the late...
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    it ended up in Punta Arenas where it fueled economic growth. Chilean silver rush Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina German colonization...
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    silver ore in the United States and named after American miner Henry Comstock. After the discovery was made public in 1859, it sparked a silver rush of...
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    progressive cities with the influx of free immigrants. After the California Gold Rush began in 1848, many people went there from Australia, so the New South Wales...
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    Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina...
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    The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme...
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    The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1858 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British...
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    Brazilian Gold Rush was a gold rush that started in the 1690s, in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil in the Portuguese Empire. The gold rush opened up the...
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    that guided Juan Godoy to the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo on May 16, 1832, sparking the Chilean silver rush. The account of the Alicanto of folklorist...
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    ISBN 978-0-8078-7133-1. J.H. Elliott, "The Silver Rush" https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/11/21/potosi-silver-rush/ Archived 2019-12-14 at the Wayback Machine...
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    proclaimed by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's Silver Rush Ghost Town. In 1881, four prospectors were leaving Grapevine Station...
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    bait hung temptingly out before the people, and, one after the other, they rushed to the tulip marts, like flies around a honey-pot. Every one imagined that...
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    a head on May 10, 1837, when banks in New York City ran out of gold and silver. They immediately suspended specie payments, and would no longer redeem...
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