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The farmers who brought the suit claimed that the company's hydraulic mining operations (which were used to mine gold in the years following the California Gold Rush) resulted in the disposal of excess sediment, debris, and chemicals in local rivers. Prosecutors argued that the debris raised river beds and restricted flow in the rivers leading ...
The Oakland Tribune review also noted Wharton's claim that the Alaska Gold Rushes, as well as the earlier Klondike Gold Rush, were the "end of an era of independent individualism". [ 1 ] In a 1992 review of Wharton's later book, They Don't Speak Russian in Sitka , Jo McMeen of the Huntingdon Daily News described it as much less "stimulating ...
The Nome Gold Rush was a gold rush in Nome, Alaska, approximately 1899–1909. [1] It is separated from other gold rushes by the ease with which gold could be obtained. Much of the gold was lying in the beach sand of the landing place and could be recovered without any need for a claim. Nome was a sea port without a harbor, and the biggest town ...
The Gold Rush began in earnest in 1849, which led to its eager participants being called "49ers," and within two years of James Marshall's discovery at Sutter's Mill, 90,000 people flocked to ...
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. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia , Greece , New Zealand , Brazil , Chile , South Africa , the United States , and Canada while smaller ...
The riots stemmed from Gold Rush settlers’ unhappiness with Sutter’s land titles, according to Sacramento History Online, a digital archive project by county institutions, including the Center ...
Some of the original Fortymile miners returned to the area after the Klondike Gold Rush passed. From 1887 to 1890 the Upper Yukon region was the richest and most productive mining area in the region. During those three years the area produced 1,200,000 ounces of gold, accounting for 5 percent of Alaska's total gold production. [42]
The Nome mining district, also known as the Cape Nome mining district, is a gold mining district in the U.S. state of Alaska.It was discovered in 1898 when Erik Lindblom, Jafet Lindeberg and John Brynteson, the "Three Lucky Swedes", found placer gold deposits on Anvil Creek and on the Snake River few miles from the future site of Nome.