gold rush in English

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a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield. The first major gold rush, to California in 1848–49, was followed by others in the US, Australia (1851–53), South Africa (1884), and Canada (Klondike, 1897–98).
The discovery of place gold set off the California gold rush of 1849 and the rush to the Klondike in 1897.
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1. The town is a relic from California's gold rush.

2. It was later overshadowed by the 1886 Witwatersrand Gold Rush.

3. Entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush.

4. Several hundred gold-rush travelers and 60 Indians were invited to join them.

5. The California Gold Rush of 1849 caused a dramatic shift in the area's economy.

6. And the parallels between the Gold Rush and the Internet Rush continue very strongly.

7. The Alaskan Gold Rush brought renewed interest in the use of sled dogs as transportation.

8. Clementine is the daughter of a 49er, a miner in the 1849 California Gold Rush.

9. The Gold Rush produced, for instance, the most multicultural society the United States had ever seen.

10. Gold Rush Allegros is a Northern California based Chapter of the Tiffin Motorhome sponsored International Allegro Club*

11. The population Burgeoned with United States citizens, Europeans, Chinese and other immigrants during the great California Gold Rush

12. The Outlaw Chemists Who Deserve a Cut of the Psychedelic Gold Rush They seeded medical breakthroughs and emerging markets

13. Coltan is mined the way that gold was mined in California during the Gold Rush of the 1800's

14. You had the Gold Rush in America, for home; we have the Spring Festival Travel Rush in China, also for home.

15. San Francisco 49ers Cheerleaders: Get the latest Gold Rush news, photos, videos, and appearances for the official Cheerleaders of the 49ers

16. Hydraulic mining was used widely in the Californian gold rush, and involved breaking down alluvial deposits with high-pressure jets of water.

17. Later, after the gold rush ended in California, prospectors explored northern Nevada and discovered gold in the majestic mountains of Cowboy Country.

18. California's name became indelibly connected with the Gold Rush, and fast success in a new world became known as the "California Dream."

19. The gold rush era of the 1850s and 1860s brought more well-known Bushrangers, including Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner, Captain Thunderbolt and John

20. After the 1860s Boise Basin gold rush ended, mining of tungsten, silver, antimony, and gold continued in the forest until the mid-twentieth century.

21. During the 1800s, some of the pioneers lured to California for the gold rush settled in Cowboy Country and established ranches and trading posts

22. Kongregate free online game Boom town - Join the Gold Rush and get rich, by the careful (or some times indiscriminate) use of high exp

23. The gold rush opened up the major gold-producing area of Ouro Preto (Portuguese for black gold), then the aptly named Vila Rica (Rich Town).

24. About Butte Butte's gold rush past is evident in its vintage signs, historic buildings and numerous trolleys and tours devoted to the memory of mining days

25. As the Gold Rush progressed, local banks and gold dealers issued "banknotes" or "drafts"—locally accepted paper currency—in exchange for gold, and private mints created private gold coins.

26. 8 People had made false claims before that they had discovered gold, so it wasn't until December of 18 when President James Polk backed up the discovery, that the Gold Rush began.

27. Inspired by a photograph of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush, and later the story of the Donner Party of 1846–47, he made what Geoffrey Macnab calls "an epic comedy out of grim subject matter."

28. Chaplin drew inspiration from photos of the Klondike Gold Rush as well as from the story of the Donner Party who, when snowbound in the Sierra Nevada, were driven to cannibalism or eating leather from their shoes.

29. More than 150 years old, Benicia was the third city in the Golden State to incorporate, precisely one month following Sacramento and San Francisco in 1850 after the expansion of the state during the California Gold Rush.

30. Historian H. W. Brands noted that in the years after the Gold Rush, the California Dream spread across the nation: Overnight, California gained the international reputation as the "golden state"—with gold and lawlessness the main themes.

31. The onset of the Victorian Gold Rush in 1851 placed further pressure on the Dja Dja Wurrung with 10,000 diggers occupying Barkers Creek, Mount Alexander and many streams turned into alluvial gold diggings with many sacred sites violated.

32. Bunco was played in England during the 18th century under the name "8 - Dice Cloth," according to the World Bunco Association, and was "introduced into San Francisco during the Gold Rush by a crooked gambler."

33. "For the first time ever in a single authoritative volume, the story is told of Coiners and assayers who created coins and ingots during some of the most pivital years in American history - the famous Gold Rush era

34. Buzzsaw is a Maurer AG SkyLoop roller coaster located within the Town of Gold Rush section of the Dreamworld amusement park on the Gold Coast of Australia.The ride began operation on 17 September 2011 as part of Dreamworld's 30th birthday celebrations.

35. Unlike other gangs of the wild west who were robbing banks, trains, and killing folks, this gang was a group of loafers and idlers who were guilty of a number of petty and minor crimes, hence the name “Bummers.”Born of the gold rush in the nearby mountains, Denver had become

36. Barberton is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, which has its origin in the 1880s gold rush in the region.It is situated in the De Kaap Valley and is fringed by the Makhonjwa Mountains.It is 43 kilometres (27 mi) south of Mbombela and 360 kilometres (220 mi) east of Johannesburg.

37. Chatterbox is a BAFTA winning, female led production company, founded by senior creatives Nav Raman, former C4 Factual Entertainment Commissioning Editor of Brat Camp, Child Genius and The Unteachables and Ali Quirk who brings a strong track record in popular factual shows from Gogglebox and Come Dine With Me to Gold Rush and Sky Cops.