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Search For Gold

Many people like to search for gold to find gold that they can sell or make in stuff such as coins, jewelry, and to store their wealth. Some may want to go gold mining. So they can have a place to store gold. Some may want to search for gold on the Internet to buy, rent, sell, hire or loan gold products where they can get gold. Some may want gold to invest in and sell later. Some may want gold to store as a base for their wealth.

A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. Eight gold rushes took place throughout the 19th century in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA.

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. The significance of gold rushes in history has given a longer life to the term, and it is now applied generally to denote any capitalist economic activity in which the participants aspire to race each other in common pursuit of a new and apparently highly lucrative market, often precipitated by an advance in technology.

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from its Latin name aurum) and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal, having been used as money, as a store of value, in jewelry, in sculpture, and for ornamentation since the beginning of recorded history. The metal occurs as nuggets or grains in rocks, underground "veins" and in alluvial deposits. It is one of the coinage metals. Gold is dense, soft, shiny and the most malleable and ductile substance known. Pure gold has a bright yellow color traditionally considered attractive.

Gold rushes helped spur permanent non-indigenous settlement of new regions and define a significant part of the culture of the North American and Australian frontiers. As well, at a time when money was based on gold, the newly-mined gold provided economic stimulus far beyond the gold fields. Gold rushes presumably extend back as far as gold mining, to the Roman Empire, whose gold mining was described by Diodorus Siculus and Pliny the Elder, and probably further back to Ancient Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

One of the last "great gold rushes" was the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon Territory (1898–99), immortalized in the novels of Jack London, the poetry of Robert W. Service and Charlie Chaplin's film The Gold Rush. 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 Canada's 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 Klondike Gold Rush sparked the largest mobilization of goldseekers in history. Millions started on the journey although ultimately only a few hundred thousand reached the Yukon Ports or other disembarkation points such as Nome, Alaska, Yakutat Bay and Stewart, British Columbia, for the long overland journey to the goldfields. Some hopeful disembarkation points such as Edmonton, Alberta, turned out to be impractical and only a handful made it by such routes. Only 35,000 finally reached what was to become Dawson City, at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon Rivers, to be faced by famine, fire and some of the world's bitterest and darkest winters.

The Klondike Gold Rush brought prospectors to other locations in the Far North, with several other smaller rushes occurring as spin-offs. 3 of the better known of such rushes were in Atlin, British Columbia (1898), and Nome (1898–99) and Fairbanks (1902), Alaska.

Notable gold rushes by date

Rushes of the 1690s

Brazil Gold Rush, Minas Gerais (1695)

Rushes of the 1820s

Georgia Gold Rush, Georgia, US (1828)

Rushes of the 1840s

California Gold Rush, California (1848)

Rushes of the 1850s

Queen Charlottes Gold Rush, British Columbia, Canada (1850); the first of many British Columbia gold rushes
Victorian Gold Rush, Victoria, Australia
Collingwood – Aorere Valley Gold Rush, Collingwood, New Zealand (1856)
Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, British Columbia (1858–1861)
Rock Creek Gold Rush, British Columbia (1859–1860s)
Pikes Peak Gold Rush, Pikes Peak, Colorado (1859)
Northern Nevada Gold Rush (from 1850 - 1934)

Rushes of the 1860s

Idaho Gold Rush, also known as the Fort Colville Gold Rush, near Colville, Washington state (1860)
Cariboo Gold Rush, British Columbia (1862–65)
Stikine Gold Rush, British Columbia (1863)
Big Bend Gold Rush, British Columbia (1865—66)
Omineca Gold Rush, British Columbia (1869)
Wild Horse Creek Gold Rush, British Columbia (1860s),
Central Otago Gold Rush, in Otago, New Zealand (1861–63)
Black Hills Gold Rush, Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming (1863, later extending into Montana)
Eastern Oregon Gold Rush (1860s–1870s)
Kildonnan Gold Rush, Sutherland, Scotland (1869)

Rushes of the 1870s

Cassiar Gold Rush, British Columbia, 1871
Palmer River Gold Rush, Palmer River, Queensland, Australia (1872)
Black Hills Gold Rush, The Black Hills, South Dakota (1874)
Bodie Gold Rush, Bodie, California (1876)
Hungen, Hesse, Germany (1877)

Rushes of the 1880s

Witwatersrand Gold Rush, Transvaal, South Africa (1886); the resulting influx of miners was one of the triggers of the Second Boer War
Cayoosh Gold Rush in Lillooet, British Columbia (1884—87)
Tulameen Gold Rush near Princeton British Columbia

Rushes of the 1890s

Tierra del Fuego Gold Rush, Tierra del Fuego, southern Chile and Argentina
Cripple Creek Gold Rush, Cripple Creek, Colorado (1891)
Westralia Gold Rush, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Klondike Gold Rush, centered on Dawson City, Yukon, Canada (1896–1898)
Atlin Gold Rush, Atlin, British Columbia (1898)
Nome Gold Rush, Nome, Alaska (1898–99)

Rushes of the 1900s

Fairbanks Gold Rush, Fairbanks, Alaska (1902)
Goldfield Gold Rush, Goldfield, Nevada
Cobalt Silver Rush, 1903-5, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Porcupine Gold Rush, 1909-11, Timmins, Ontario, Canada – little known, but one of the largest in terms of gold mined, 67 million ounces as of 2001

Rushes of the 1970s

Upper Amazon Gold Rush, Upper Amazon region, Brazil and Peru

Rushes of the 1980s

Amazon Gold Rush, Amazon region, Brazil

Rushes of the 2000s

Great Mongolian Gold Rush, Mongolia (2001)
Apuí Gold Rush, Apuí, Amazonas, Brazil (2006); approximately 500,000 miners are thought to work in the Amazon's "garimpos" (gold mines).

Gold has been associated with the extremities of utmost evil and great sanctity throughout history. In Communist propaganda, the golden pocket watch and its fastening golden chain were the characteristic accessories of the class enemy, the bourgeois and the industrial tycoons. Credit card companies associate their product with wealth by naming and coloring their top-of-the-range cards “gold” although, in an attempt to out-do each other.

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