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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.
As the gold rush progressed, local banks and gold dealers issued "banknotes" or "drafts"—locally accepted paper currency—in exchange for gold, [125] and private mints created private gold coins. [126]
Gold was first discovered in Montana in 1852, but mining did not begin until 1862, when gold placers were discovered at Bannack, Montana in 1862. The resulting gold rush resulted in more placer discoveries, including those at Virginia City in 1863, and at Helena and Butte in 1864. [32] In 1867, the Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode was located.
started his meat packing business with funds from success in the Gold Fields [3] Josiah Belden: 1815–1892 Connecticut, U.S. politician, rancho grantee first mayor of San Jose, California: Charles H. Bennett (soldier) 1811–1855 Walla Walla, Washington, U.S. soldier, hotelier present at the first discovery of gold John Bidwell: 1819–1900
South American metal working seems to have developed in the Andean region of modern Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, and Argentina with gold and native copper being hammered and shaped into intricate objects, particularly ornaments. [1] [5] Recent finds date the earliest gold work to 2155–1936 BC. [1] and the earliest copper work to 1432–1132 BC.
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]
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. [1]A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.