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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, New Zealand, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, California, the United States, and Canada while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere.
In the 19th century, the wealth that resulted was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself proved unprofitable for most diggers and mine owners, some people made large fortunes, and merchants and transportation facilities made large profits. The resulting increase in the world’s gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. Historians have written extensively about the mass migration, trade, colonization, and environmental history associated with gold rushes.[2]
Gold rushes were typically marked by a general buoyant feeling of a «free-for-all» in income mobility, in which any single individual might become abundantly wealthy almost instantly, as expressed in the California Dream.
Gold rushes helped spur waves of immigration that often led to the permanent settlement of new regions. Activities propelled by gold rushes define significant aspects of the culture of the Australian and North American frontiers. At a time when the world’s money supply was based on gold, the newly-mined gold provided economic stimulus far beyond the goldfields, feeding into local and wider economic booms.
The Gold Rush was a topic that inspired many TV shows and book considering it was a very important topic at the time. During the time, many books were published including Call of the Wild, which had much success during the period.
Gold rushes occurred as early as the times of the Greek Empire, whose gold mining was described by Diodarus Sicules and Pliny the Elder, and probably further back to ancient Greece.
Surviving the Gold Rush
A man leans over a wooden sluice. Rocks line the outside of the wood boards that create the sluice.
Within each mining rush there is typically a transition through progressively higher capital expenditures, larger organizations, and more specialized knowledge. They may also progress from high-unit value to lower-unit value minerals (from gold to silver to base metals).
A rush typically begins with the discovery of placer gold made by an individual. At first the gold may be washed from the sand and gravel by individual miners with little training, using a gold pan or similar simple instrument. Once it is clear that the volume of gold-bearing sediment is larger than a few cubic metres, the placer miners will build rockers or sluice boxes, with which a small group can wash gold from the sediment many times faster than using gold pans. Winning the gold in this manner requires almost no capital investment, only a simple pan or equipment that may be built on the spot, and only simple organisation. The low investment, the high value per unit weight of gold, and the ability of gold dust and gold nuggets to serve as a medium of exchange, allow placer gold rushes to occur even in remote locations.
After the sluice-box stage, placer mining may become increasingly large scale, requiring larger organisations and higher capital expenditures. Small claims owned and mined by individuals may need to be merged into larger tracts. Difficult-to-reach placer deposits may be mined by tunnels. Water may be diverted by dams and canals to placer mine active river beds or to deliver water needed to wash dry placers. The more advanced techniques of ground sluicing, hydraulic mining and dredging may be used.
Typically the heyday of a placer gold rush would last only a few years. The free gold supply in stream beds would become depleted somewhat quickly, and the initial phase would be followed by prospecting for veins of lode gold that were the original source of the placer gold. Hard rock mining, like placer mining, may evolve from low capital investment and simple technology to progressively higher capital and technology. The surface outcrop of a gold-bearing vein may be oxidized, so that the gold occurs as native gold, and the ore needs only to be crushed and washed (free milling ore). The first miners may at first build a simple arrastra to crush their ore; later, they may build stamp mills to crush ore at greater speed. As the miners venture downwards, they may find that the deeper part of vein contains gold locked in sulfide or telluride minerals, which will require smelting. If the ore is still sufficiently rich, it may be worth shipping to a distant smelter (direct shipping ore). Lower-grade ore may require on-site treatment to either recover the gold or to produce a concentrate sufficiently rich for transport to the smelter. As the district turns to lower-grade ore, the mining may change from underground mining to large open-pit mining.
Many silver rushes followed upon gold rushes. As transportation and infrastructure improve, the focus may change progressively from gold to silver to base metals. In this way, Leadville, Colorado started as a placer gold discovery, achieved fame as a silver-mining district, then relied on lead and zinc in its later days. Butte, Montana began mining placer gold, then became a silver-mining district, then became for a time the world’s largest copper producer.
By region
Australia and New Zealand
Various gold rushes occurred in Australia over the second half of the 19th century. The most significant of these, although not the only ones, were the New South Wales gold rush and Victorian gold rush in 1851,[3] and the Western Australian gold rushes of the 1890s. They were highly significant to their respective colonies’ political and economic development as they brought many immigrants, and promoted massive government spending on infrastructure to support the new arrivals who came looking for gold. While some found their fortune, those who did not often remained in the colonies and took advantage of extremely liberal land laws to take up farming.
Gold rushes happened at or around:
- Ballarat, Victoria
- Bathurst, New South Wales
- Beechworth, Victoria
- Bendigo, Victoria
- Canoona, Queensland
- Charters Towers, Queensland
- Coolgardie, Western Australia
- Gympie, Queensland
- Gulgong, New South Wales
- Halls Creek, Western Australia
- Hill End, New South Wales
- Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
- Queenstown, Tasmania
In New Zealand the Central Otago Gold Rush from 1861 attracted prospectors from the California Gold Rush and the Victorian Gold Rush and many moved on to the West Coast Gold Rush from 1864.
North America
The first significant gold rush in the United States was in Cabarrus County, North Carolina (east of Charlotte), in 1799 at today’s Reed’s Gold Mine.[4] Thirty years later, in 1829, the Georgia Gold Rush in the southern Appalachians occurred. It was followed by the California Gold Rush of 1848–55 in the Sierra Nevada, which captured the popular imagination. The California gold rush led directly to the settlement of California by Americans and the rapid entry of that state into the union in 1850. The gold rush in 1849 stimulated worldwide interest in prospecting for gold, and led to new rushes in Australia, South Africa, Wales and Scotland. Successive gold rushes occurred in western North America: Fraser Canyon, the Cariboo district and other parts of British Columbia, in Nevada, in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, and western New Mexico Territory and along the lower Colorado River. There was a gold rush in Nova Scotia (1861-1876) which produced nearly 210,000 ounces of gold.[5] Resurrection Creek, near Hope, Alaska was the site of Alaska’s first gold rush in the mid–1890s.[6] Other notable Alaska Gold Rushes were Nome, Fairbanks, and the Fortymile River.
Miners and prospectors ascend the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush.
One of the last «great gold rushes» was the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada’s Yukon Territory (1896–99). This gold rush is featured in the novels of Jack London, and Charlie Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush. Robert William Service depicted in his poetries the Gold Rush, especially in the book The Trail of ’98.[7] The main goldfield was along the south flank of the Klondike River near its confluence with the Yukon River near what was to become Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory, but it also helped open up the relatively new US possession of Alaska to exploration and settlement, and promoted the discovery of other gold finds.
The most successful of the North American gold rushes was the Porcupine Gold Rush in Timmins, Ontario area. This gold rush was unique compared to others by the method of extraction of the gold. Placer mining techniques were not able to be used to access the gold in the area due to it being embedded into the Canadian Shield, so larger mining operations involving significantly more expensive equipment was required. While this gold rush peaked in the 1940s and 1950s, it is still active today with over 200 million [8] ounces of gold having been produced from the region. The gold deposits in this area are identified as one of the largest in the world. [9]
Africa
In South Africa, the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in the Transvaal was important to that country’s history, leading to the founding of Johannesburg and tensions between the Boers and British settlers as well as the Chinese miners.[10]
South African gold production went from zero in 1886 to 23% of the total world output in 1896. At the time of the South African rush, gold production benefited from the newly discovered techniques by Scottish chemists, the MacArthur-Forrest process, of using potassium cyanide to extract gold from low-grade ore.[11]
South America
The gold mine at El Callao (Venezuela), started in 1871, was for a time one of the richest in the world, and the goldfields as a whole saw over a million ounces exported between 1860 and 1883. The gold mining was dominated by immigrants from the British Isles and the British West Indies, giving an appearance of almost creating an English colony on Venezuelan territory.
Between 1883 and 1906 Tierra del Fuego experienced a gold rush attracting many Chileans, Argentines and Europeans to the archipelago. The gold rush begun in 1884 following discovery of gold during the rescue of the French steamship Arctique near Cape Virgenes.[12]
Mining industry today
There are about 10 to 30 million small-scale miners around the world, according to Communities and Small-Scale Mining (CASM). Approximately 100 million people are directly or indirectly dependent on small-scale mining. For example, there are 800,000 to 1.5 million artisanal miners in Democratic Republic of Congo, 350,000 to 650,000 in Sierra Leone, and 150,000 to 250,000 in Ghana, with millions more across Africa.[13]
In an exclusive report, Reuters accounted the smuggling of billions of dollars’ worth of gold out of Africa through the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East, which further acts as a gateway to the markets in the United States, Europe and more. The news agency evaluated the worth and magnitude of illegal gold trade occurring in African nations like Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia, by comparing the total gold imports recorded into the UAE with the exports affirmed by the African states. According to Africa’s industrial mining firms, they have not exported any amount of gold to the UAE – confirming that the imports come from other, illegal sources. As per customs data, the UAE imported gold worth $15.1 billion from Africa in 2016, with a total weight of 446 tons, in variable degrees of purity. Much of the exports were not recorded in the African states, which means huge volume of gold imports were carried out with no taxes paid to the states producing it.[14]
By date
Before 1860
- Brazilian Gold Rush, Minas Gerais (1695)[15]
- Carolina Gold Rush, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, US (1799)[4]
- Georgia Gold Rush, Georgia, US (1828)
- California Gold Rush (1848–55)
- Siberian Gold Rush, Siberia, Russian Empire
- Queen Charlottes Gold Rush, British Columbia, Canada (1850); the first of many British Columbia gold rushes
- Northern Nevada Gold Rush (1850–1934)[clarification needed]
- Victorian gold rush, Victoria, Australia (1851–late 1860s). Known as the Golden Triangle, it incorporated areas such as Ararat, Castlemaine, Marybororgh, Clunes, Bendigo, Ballarat, Daylesford, Beechworth, and Eldorado.
- Kern River Gold Rush, California (1853–58)
- Idaho Gold Rush, near Colville, Washington (1855; also known as the Fort Colville Gold Rush)
- Gila Placers Rush, New Mexico Territory (present-day Arizona; 1858–59)
- Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, British Columbia (1858–61)
- Rock Creek Gold Rush, British Columbia (1859–60s)[clarification needed]
- Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, Pikes Peak, Kansas Territory (present-day Colorado; 1859)
1860s
- Holcomb Valley Gold Rush, California (1860–61)
- Clearwater Gold Rush, Idaho (1860)
- Central Otago Gold Rush, New Zealand (1861)
- Eldorado Canyon Rush, New Mexico Territory (present-day Nevada; 1861)
- Colorado River Gold Rush, Arizona Territory (1862–64)
- Boise Basin Gold Rush, Idaho (1862)
- Cariboo Gold Rush, British Columbia (1862–65)
- Montana Gold Rush (1862–69), including:[16]
- Bannack, Virginia City (Alder Gulch), and Helena (Last Chance Gulch) (1862–64)
- Confederate Gulch (1864–69)
- Stikine Gold Rush, British Columbia (1863)
- Owyhee Gold Rush, Southeastern Oregon, Southwestern Idaho (1863)
- Owens Valley Rush, Owens Valley, California (1863–64)
- Leechtown Gold Rush, (south of Sooke Lake), Leech River, Vancouver Island (1864–65)
- West Coast Gold Rush, South Island, New Zealand (1864–67)
- Big Bend Gold Rush, British Columbia (1865—66)
- Francistown Gold Rush, British Protectorate of Bechuanaland (1867)[17]
- Omineca Gold Rush, British Columbia (1869)
- Wild Horse Creek Gold Rush, British Columbia (1860s)[clarification needed]
- Eastern Oregon Gold Rush (1860s–70s)[clarification needed]
- Kildonan Gold Rush, Sutherland, Scotland (1869)[18]
1870s
- Lapland gold rush, Finland, 1870
- El Callao Gold Rush, Venezuela, 1871
- Cassiar Gold Rush, British Columbia, 1871
- Palmer River Gold Rush, Palmer River, Queensland, Australia (1872)
- Pilgrim’s Rest, South Africa (1873)
- Black Hills Gold Rush, Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming (1874–78)
- Bodie Gold Rush, Bodie, California (1876)
- Kumara Gold Rush, Kumara and Dillmanstown, New Zealand (1876)[19]
1880s
- Barberton Gold Rush, South Africa (1883)
- Witwatersrand Gold Rush, Transvaal, South Africa (1886); discovery of the largest deposit of gold in the world. The resulting influx of miners became one of the triggers of the Second Boer War of 1899-1902.
- Cayoosh Gold Rush in Lillooet, British Columbia (1884—87)
- Tulameen Gold Rush, near Princeton, British Columbia[when?]
- Tierra del Fuego Gold Rush, southernmost Chile and Argentina (1884–1906)
- Baja California Gold Rush, in the Santa Clara mountains about sixty miles southeast of Ensenada (1889)[20]
- Amur gold rush, on the China-Russia border. Some miners in the region formed independent proto-states such as the Zheltuga Republic.
1890s
- Cripple Creek Gold Rush, Cripple Creek, Colorado (1891)
- Western Australian gold rushes, Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, Western Australia (1893, 1896)
- Mount Baker Gold Rush, Whatcom County, Washington, United States (1897–1920s)
- Klondike Gold Rush, centered on Dawson City, Yukon, Canada (1896–99)
- Atlin Gold Rush, Atlin, British Columbia (1898)
- Nome Gold Rush, Nome, Alaska (1899–1909)
- Fairview Goldrush, Oliver (Fairview), British Columbia, Canada
20th century
- Fairbanks Gold Rush, Fairbanks, Alaska (1902–05)
- Goldfield Gold Rush, Goldfield, Nevada[when?]
- Porcupine Gold Rush, 1909–11, Timmins, Ontario, Canada – little known, but one of the largest in terms of gold mined, 67 million ounces as of 2001
- Iditarod Gold Rush, Flat, Alaska, 1910–12, where gold was discovered by John Beaton and William A. Dikeman in 1908
- Soviet gold rush — notably involving Gulag slave labor in the Kolyma region[21]
- Kakamega gold rush, Kenya, 1932
- Vatukoula Gold Rush, Fiji, 1932
- Serra Pelada, Brazil
- Mount Diwata Gold Rush, Monkayo, Philippines, 1983-1987[22]
- Amazon Gold Rush, Amazon region, Brazil[when?][23]
- Mount Kare Gold Rush, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea[24][25]
21st century
- Great Mongolian Gold Rush, Mongolia (2001)[26]
- Apuí Gold Rush, Apuí, Amazonas, Brazil (2006);[27] approximately 500,000 miners are thought to work in the Amazon’s «garimpos» (gold mines).[28]
- Peruvian Amazon gold rush, Madre de Dios (2009)[29]
- Tibesti Mountains gold rush, Chad, Libya and Niger (2012)[30]
- Gold rush in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2021)[31][32]
See also
- Bandwagon effect
- Diamond rush
References
- ^ Ralph K. Andrist (2015). The Gold Rush. New Word City. p. 29. ISBN 9781612308975.
- ^ Reeves, Keir; Frost, Lionel; Fahey, Charles (22 June 2010). «Integrating the Historiography of the Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes». Australian Economic History Review. 50 (2): 111–128. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8446.2010.00296.x.
- ^ Wendy Lewis, Simon Balderstone and John Bowan (2006). Events That Shaped Australia. New Holland. ISBN 978-1-74110-492-9.
- ^ a b «The North Carolina Gold Rush». Tar Heel Junior Historian 45, no. 2 (Spring 2006) copyright North Carolina Museum of History.
- ^ «Gold Rushes:The First Gold Rush». Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ Halloran, Jim (September 2010). «Alaska’s Hope-Sunrise Mining District». Prospecting and Mining Journal. 80 (1). Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ «Biographie».
- ^ «The gold exploration surge continues in Timmins».
- ^ Turner, Bob; Quat, Marianne; Debicki, Ruth; Thurston, Phil (2015), «Timmins: Canada’s greatest goldfields!» (PDF), Natural Resources Canada and Ontario Geological Survey 2015, GeoTours Northern Ontario series
- ^ Ngai, Mae M. (2021). The Chinese question : the gold rushes and global politics (First ed.). New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-393-63416-7. OCLC 1196176649.
- ^ Micheloud, François (2004). «The Crime of 1873: Gold Inflation this time». FX Micheloud Monetary History. François Micheloud: www.micheloud.com. Archived from the original on 2006-05-20.
- ^ Martinic Beros, Mateo. Crónica de las Tierras del Canal Beagle. 1973. Editorial Francisco de Aguirre S.A. Pp. 55–65
- ^ Soaring prices drive a modern, illegal gold rush, New York Times, July 14, 2008
- ^ «Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa». Reuters. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- ^ «Gold rush». Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-31.
- ^ Malone, Michael P.; Roeder, Richard B.; Lang, William L. (1991). «Chapter 4, The Mining Frontier». Montana : a history of two centuries (Rev. ed.). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. pp. 64–91. ISBN 978-0-295-97129-2. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ^ Murphy, Alan; Armstrong, Kate; Bainbridge, James; Firestone, Matthew D. (January 27, 2010). Southern Africa. Lonely Planet. ISBN 9781740595452 – via Google Books.
- ^ The Baile an Or project– Scotland’s Gold Rush Retrieved: 2010-03-31.
- ^ Dollimore, Edward Stewart. – «Kumara, Westland». – Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1966).
- ^ Flanigan, Sylvia K. (Winter 1980). Thomas L. Scharf (ed.). «The Baja California gold rush of 1889». The Journal of San Diego History. San Diego Historical Society Quarterly. 26 (1).
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Levitan, Gregory (2008). «1: History of gold exploration and mining in the CIS». Gold Deposits Of The CIS. Xlibris Corporation. p. 24. ISBN 9781462836024. Retrieved 2017-10-29.The early 1930s were marked by the decision of the Communist Party Politburo to reinstate the institution of prospectors who had been banned as antisocialist elements in the second half of the 1920s. Littlepage described in his book (1938) that by 1933 all plans to put prospectors back to work in the field had been worked out and implemented as rapidly as possible. Regulations to govern relations between prospectors and Gold Thrust were drawn up, setting in motion a Soviet gold rush.
- ^ Rationalizing Mining Operations at the Diwalwal Gold Rush Area, Monkayo, Compostela Valley
- ^ Marlise Simons (1988-04-25). «In Amazon Jungle, a Gold Rush Like None Before». The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-31.
- ^ Henton, Dave, and Andi Flower. 2007. Mount Kare Gold Rush: Papua New Guinea 1988 – 1994. ISBN 978-0646482811.
- ^ Ryan, Peter. 1991. Black Bonanza: A Landslide of Gold. Hyland House. ISBN 978-0947062804.
- ^ Grainger David (December 22, 2003). «The Great Mongolian Gold Rush The land of Genghis Khan has the biggest mining find in a very long time. A visit to the core of a frenzy in the middle of nowhere». CNNMoney.com. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
- ^ Jens Glüsing (February 9, 2007). «Gold Rush in the Rainforest: Brazilians Flock to Seek their Fortunes in the Amazon». Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
- ^ Tom Phillips (January 11, 2007). «Brazilian goldminers flock to ‘new Eldorado’«. The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
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Lauren Keane (December 19, 2009). «Rising prices spark a new gold rush in Peruvian Amazon». The Washington Post. Retrieved 2011-04-24. - ^ Chamberlain, Gethin (January 17, 2018). «The deadly African gold rush fuelled by people smugglers’ promises». The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ^ «In Congo’s gold rush, the money is in beer and brothels». The Economist. 2020-12-19. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ «Congo bans mining in South Kivu village after gold rush». Reuters. 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
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Further reading
- Ngai, Mae. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021), Mid 19c in California, Australia and South Africa
- White, Franklin. Miner with a Heart of Gold — Biography of a Mineral Science and Engineering Educator. FriesenPress. 2020. ISBN 978-1-5255-7765-9 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-1-5255-7766-6 (Paperback) ISBN 978-1-5255-7767-3 (eBook).
External links
- Object of History: the Gold Nugget
- PBS’ American Experience: The Gold Rush
- Exploring the California Gold Rush
- The Australian Gold Rush
- Off to the Klondike! The Search for Gold Archived 2016-04-02 at the Wayback Machine — illustrated historical essay
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gold rush — ☆ gold rush n. a rush of people to territory where gold has recently been discovered, as to California in 1849 … English World dictionary
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gold rush — gold rushes N COUNT A gold rush is a situation when a lot of people suddenly go to a place where gold has been discovered … English dictionary
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gold rush — n a situation when a lot of people hurry to a place where gold has just been discovered … Dictionary of contemporary English
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gold rush — gold ,rush noun singular 1. ) a period in the past when a lot of people went to a place where gold had been discovered in order to become rich 2. ) INFORMAL a situation in which a lot of people suddenly become involved in a particular activity… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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gold rush — gold′ rush n. a large scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849 … From formal English to slang
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Gold rush — A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. Eight gold rushes took place throughout the 19th century in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand … Wikipedia
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gold rush — a large scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849. [1875 80, Amer.] * * * Rapid influx of fortune seekers to the site of newly discovered gold deposits. The first major gold strike… … Universalium
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the California gold rush of 1849
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—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
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And then the comedown, or, in Neil Young’s coda to Jim Morrison, life after the gold rush.
—James Reich, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2023
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—Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2023
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—Cade Metz, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
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Англо-русский перевод GOLD RUSH
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
James D. Watson
PRONUNCIATION OF GOLD RUSH
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GOLD RUSH
Gold rush is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.
WHAT DOES GOLD RUSH MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Gold rush
A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area that has had a dramatic discovery of gold deposits. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, while smaller gold rushes took place elsewhere. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, there were several major gold rushes. The permanent wealth that resulted was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was unprofitable for most diggers and mine owners, some people made large fortunes, and the merchants and transportation facilities made large profits. The resulting increase in the world’s gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. Historians have written extensively about the migration, trade, colonization, and environmental history associated with gold rushes. Gold rushes were typically marked by a general buoyant feeling of a «free for all» in income mobility, in which any single individual might become abundantly wealthy almost instantly, as expressed in the California Dream.
Definition of gold rush in the English dictionary
The definition of gold rush in the dictionary is a large-scale migration of people to a territory where gold has been found.
Synonyms and antonyms of gold rush in the English dictionary of synonyms
Translation of «gold rush» into 25 languages
TRANSLATION OF GOLD RUSH
Find out the translation of gold rush to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gold rush from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gold rush» in English.
Translator English — Chinese
淘金
1,325 millions of speakers
Translator English — Spanish
fiebre del oro
570 millions of speakers
Translator English — Hindi
सोने की भीड़
380 millions of speakers
Translator English — Arabic
الذهب الاندفاع
280 millions of speakers
Translator English — Russian
золотая лихорадка
278 millions of speakers
Translator English — Portuguese
corrida do ouro
270 millions of speakers
Translator English — Bengali
স্বর্ণ ঢাল
260 millions of speakers
Translator English — French
ruée vers l´or
220 millions of speakers
Translator English — Malay
Tergesa-gesa emas
190 millions of speakers
Translator English — German
Goldrausch
180 millions of speakers
Translator English — Japanese
ゴールドラッシュ
130 millions of speakers
Translator English — Korean
골드 러시
85 millions of speakers
Translator English — Javanese
Emas rush
85 millions of speakers
Translator English — Vietnamese
tìm vàng
80 millions of speakers
Translator English — Tamil
தங்க ரஷ்
75 millions of speakers
Translator English — Marathi
सोने गर्दी
75 millions of speakers
Translator English — Turkish
Altın acele
70 millions of speakers
Translator English — Italian
corsa all´oro
65 millions of speakers
Translator English — Polish
gorączka złota
50 millions of speakers
Translator English — Ukrainian
Золота лихоманка
40 millions of speakers
Translator English — Romanian
goana dupa aur
30 millions of speakers
Translator English — Greek
πυρετός του χρυσού
15 millions of speakers
Translator English — Afrikaans
goudstormloop
14 millions of speakers
Translator English — Swedish
guldrusch
10 millions of speakers
Translator English — Norwegian
gullrush
5 millions of speakers
Trends of use of gold rush
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GOLD RUSH»
The term «gold rush» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.228 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
FREQUENCY
Quite widely used
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of gold rush
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GOLD RUSH» OVER TIME
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gold rush
QUOTES WITH «GOLD RUSH»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word gold rush.
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOLD RUSH»
Discover the use of gold rush in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gold rush and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New …
And, as H. W. Brands makes clear in this spellbinding book, the Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” Brands tells his epic story from multiple perspectives: of …
2
What Was the Gold Rush?
In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn’t. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking «forty-niners!
3
Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
Captures the multiethnic, multicultural world of the California Gold Rush, in a richly textured social history that profiles the era’s diverse and colorful characters, the evolution of a unique society, and the sources of our legends and …
4
Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899
The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy.
5
The Gold Rush: Chinese Immigrants Come to America (1848-1882)
This book briefly describes the reasons for Chinese immigration to the United States during the late 19th century, and the challenges they faced on arrival.
6
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
These are the girls of the demimonde, that «half world» of disreputable women who lived on the outskirts of society.
7
The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II
She follows this story into the postwar era, when struggles over employment, housing, and civil rights shaped the urban political landscape for the 1950s and beyond.
Marilynn S. Johnson, 1993
8
A Doctor’s Gold Rush Journey to California
Disappointed with the maps and guides of the day, Lord determined to set the record straight for future travelers.
Israel Shipman Pelton Lord, Necia Dixon Liles, 1999
9
Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew to Hoochinoo
«There’s a heavy dose of gold rush history here, which sets it a cut above your normal recipe-oriented cookbook.» The Midwest Book Review «[A] fascinating new culinary history of gold miners in California, Alaska and the Klondike.
10
California’s Gold Rush
This title examines an important historic event—the gold rush in California.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOLD RUSH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gold rush is used in the context of the following news items.
Pan Am gold rush continues for Canada
Canada swept the Pan American Games’ gold medals in both the men’s and women’s rugby sevens and mountain bike events on Sunday, … «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
(Unversiade) S. Korea caps off impressive run with more gold rush
GWANGJU, July 13 (Yonhap) — South Korea collected three more gold medals on Monday to cap off an impressive run to the top of the … «Yonhap News, Jul 15»
John Morgan: Expect marijuana gold rush, then shakeout
John Morgan, 59, is founder of the Morgan & Morgan law firm, headquartered in Orlando. He also is chairman of the pro-medical marijuana … «Orlando Sentinel, Jul 15»
Gold Rush Comission thanks volunteers, sponsors, city
The Juneau Gold Rush Commission would like to thank all the sponsors and volunteers who helped make the 25th Annual Gold Rush Days a … «Juneau Empire, Jul 15»
This weekend’s events: Climbers’ Festival, Day in the Park, Gold …
(South Pass City) – South Pass City State Historic Site 2015 Gold Rush Days July 11 – July 12 from 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Vintage Baseball … «County 10, Jul 15»
Dalradian pursues dream of gold rush in Northern Ireland
A gold rush in Northern Ireland would be transformational for one of the UK’s poorest regions. While gold has been known here for centuries … «Financial Times, Jul 15»
Filson: Dressing Seattleites from the gold rush to the tech boom
The company was founded in 1897 by Clinton Filson to outfit prospectors who were heading north for the Great Klondike Gold Rush. «KOMO News, Jul 15»
Jibin’s gold rush: from civil police officer to millionaire
His earnings as an immigration assistant at the Cochin International Airport Limited since 2012 come up to a relatively modest Rs. 6.5 lakh. «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Historic Golden Mile Loopline Railway from Kalgoorlie to Boulder in …
The late 1800s gold rush saw the Golden Mile Loopline Railway in Western Australia become one of the busiest stretches of track in the … «ABC Online, Jul 15»
No Gold Rush as Greece and China Troubles Roil Markets
SYDNEY—Market mayhem is normally a buy signal for one asset: gold. But this time around the precious metal is the dog that hasn’t barked. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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