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
- California Clipper 500.jpg
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.
- Wooden gold sluice in California between 1890 and 1915..jpg
A man leans over a wooden sluice. Rocks line the outside of the wood boards that create the sluice.
- NMA.0039209 Emigration. Svenskar i Amerika. Guldvaskare vid Black Foots River, Montana.jpg
Swedish gold panners by the Blackfoot River, Montana in the 1860s
- Kullanhuuhdontaa Ivalossa.jpg
Gold prospecting at the Ivalo River in 1898
- Hydraulic mining in Dutch Flat, California, between 1857 and 1870.jpg
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
