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Felix Pedro's discovery of gold here in 1902 began the Alaskan gold rush. Felix Pedro discovered gold in the Tanana Hills northeast of Fairbanks on or about July 22, 1902 [ 6 ] in a small unnamed stream (now known as "Pedro Creek") northeast of Fairbanks , prompting him to exclaim "There's gold in them there hills", and triggering a full-scale ...
The Quimbaya Poporo, gold, attributed to the pre-Columbian Quimbaya civilization in the Andean region of present-day Colombia, ca. 300 CE. A Poporo is a device used by indigenous cultures in present and pre-Columbian South America for storage of small amounts of lime produced from burnt and crushed sea-shells.
Gold was discovered at the South Pass-Atlantic City-Sweetwater district in present Fremont County in 1842. The placers were worked intermittently until 1867, when the first important gold vein was discovered, and prospectors and miners rushed to the area.. The towns of South Pass City, Atlantic City, and Miner's Delight catered to the miners ...
Tommy Gregory Thompson is an American treasure hunter known for his leading role in the discovery of the wreck of the SS Central America on September 11, 1988. [4] He is also the author of a book about the discovery, America's Lost Treasure, published in 1998, [5] and is a main character in the best-selling 1998 non-fiction book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder.
the television show Unsolved Mysteries; originally on May 10, 1989, and an update on February 11, 1990 [11] a 2008 book co-authored by Robert Boswell , titled What Men Call Treasure [ 12 ] a six-part television series titled Gold, Lies & Videotape , which debuted on Discovery Channel in January 2023 [ 13 ]
Thomas Francis Walsh (April 2, 1850 – April 8, 1910) was an Irish-American miner who, in 1896 in Colorado, discovered one of the largest gold mines in the United States of America. Early life [ edit ]
Only gold that is concentrated can be economically recovered. Some 400 million years ago, rocks that would be accreted onto western North America to build California lay at the bottom of a large sea. Subsea volcanoes deposited lava and minerals (including gold) onto the sea floor; sometimes enough that islands were created. [1]
A film about him, Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story was released in 1986, starring Cliff Robertson and Loretta Swit. [ 18 ] In the novel Supernatural: Bone Key based on the American TV series Supernatural , protagonist Dean Winchester is infused with all of the ghosts on Key West to fight a vengeance spirit called the Last Calusa.