Gold rush
A gold rush is when a lot of miners go to a mining place full of gold. Well-known examples are the California Gold Rush of 1848, the Australian gold rush which began in 1851, or the Fraser river gold rush in British Columbia, Canada in 1858.[1]
Gold Rush Media
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.
Panning for gold on the Mokelumne River in California.
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
Gold prospecting at the Ivalo River in 1898
Jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California sometime between 1857 and 1870
Ballarat's tent city in the summer of 1853–54, oil painting from an original sketch by Eugene von Guerard
A chart showing the great nuggets of Victoria at Museums Victoria
Miners and prospectors ascend the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush.
5-gram gold coin from Tierra del Fuego issued by Julius Popper.
