The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California ( although the rush started in January ).

In the early 1870s Darwin felt the effects of a gold rush at Pine Creek after employees of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line found gold while digging holes for telegraph poles.

In early 1875 Darwin's European population had grown to approximately 300 because of the gold rush.

The event was the culmination of civil disobedience in the Ballarat region during the Victorian gold rush with miners objecting to the expense of a Miner's Licence, taxation ( via the licence ) without representation and the actions of the government and its agents ( the police and military ) The local rebellion in Ballarat grew from a Ballarat Reform League movement and culminated in organised battle at the stockades against colonial forces.

Shortly after the Hiscock's gully gold rush of 1851 following the discovery of gold at Hiscock's, 3 kilometres west of Buninyong ( now Magpie approximately 10 kilometres south of Eureka ), the newly created Victorian colonial government announced in August 1851 that it would charge a licence fee to miners on the crown land.

* 1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.

It later evolved into hydraulic mining when used during the California gold rush.

European traders and prospectors barely penetrated the interior regions, until the Transvaal gold rush.

As it spread north along the Mississippi River and to the West during the gold rush, it is thought to have become a part of the frontier pioneer ethos.

In the mid-19th century, Panama's economy boomed as a result of increased cargo and passengers associated with the California gold rush.

His father James was a storekeeper, the son of Scottish crofters who had immigrated to Australia in the mid-1850s in the wake of the Victorian gold rush.

During the California gold rush of 1848-1850s, San Francisco Bay instantly became one of the world's greatest seaports, dominating shipping and transportation in the American West until the last years of the 19th century.

Dogs from the Anadyr River and surrounding regions were imported into Alaska from 1908 ( and for the next two decades ) during the gold rush for use as sled dogs, especially in the " All-Alaska Sweepstakes ," a 408-mile ( 657-km ) distance dog sled race from Nome, to Candle, and back.

Initially discovered by Ferdinand Magellan's expedition in 1520, the islands were not settled by people of European descent until the second half of the 19th century at the height of the sheep farming and gold rush booms.

Tensions sometimes ran high between the settlers and the " Vandemonians " as they were termed, particularly during the Victorian gold rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields.

The Victorian gold rush.

* August 19 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States that there is a gold rush in California ( although the rush started in January ).

Conrad's father John Reed learns that the rock is actually gold in 1802, initiating the first gold rush in the United States.

However, the monetary authorities will continue to be required to pay attention to the consequences of their actions with respect to our international balance of payments position and the outflow of gold, as well as with regard to avoiding the creation of excessive liquidity in the economy, which would delay the effectiveness of monetary policy measures in the next expansion phase of the business cycle.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

And he certainly couldn't have guessed that she would resist his demand for the gold or that she was not the yielding -- yes, and credible fool he had every right to expect.

and in the third place, it would cost a fortune to reproduce in the first place -- you've got six colors there including gold ''.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

Arms of a Roman Catholic abbot are distinguished by a gold crozier with a veil attached and a black galero with twelve tassels ( the galero of a territorial abbot would be green )

Charon, also known as the ferry-man, would take the soul across the river to Hades, if the soul had gold: Upon burial, the family of the dead soul would put coins under the deceased's tongue.

The Almoravid gold dinar would set the standard of the Iberian maravedi.

A Venetian embassy visited Constantinople in 1184 and an agreement was reached that compensation of 1, 500 gold pieces would be paid for the losses incurred in 1171.

When this woman wanted to buy a golden necklace ( no name given ) forged by four dwarves ( named Dvalinn, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer ), she offered them gold and silver but they replied that they would only sell it to her if she would lie a night by each of them.

Hume argued that England could not permanently gain from exports, because hoarding gold ( i. e., currency ) would make gold more plentiful in England ; therefore, the prices of English goods would rise, making them less attractive exports and making foreign goods more attractive imports.

One set of " heavier " carob seeds would be used when buying from a customer ( making the seller's gold appear to be less ).

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

According to the natives of Peru, who by this time had observed the Spanish lust for gold, the territories of Chile had abundances of gold which would justify any effort.

The Incas filled the Ransom Room with gold and silver awaiting a release that would never happen.

This was the point at which the silver and gold treasure of Peru had to be landed and sent overland to the Caribbean Sea, where galleons from Spain would pick it up at the town of Nombre de Dios.

* In Chapter 54 it says: " For he would get in change a piece of gold must have sixty mites " ( Italian minuti ).

The defining goals of alchemy are often given as the transmutation of common metals into gold ( known as chrysopoeia ), the creation of a panacea, and the discovery of a universal solvent.

Mercury was often used in mining, to extract precious metals like gold and silver from their ores.

In ancient Egypt and Mycenae, gold was often alloyed with copper to produce red-gold, or iron to produce a bright burgundy-gold.

Silver was often found alloyed with gold.

This could be either the normal military dress, with a tunic to about the knees, armour breastplate and pteruges, but also often the specific dress of the bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor, with a long tunic and the loros, a long gold and jewelled pallium restricted to the Imperial family and their closest guards.

It was often used for weighing gold.

Baudot received little help from the French Telegraph Administration for his system, and often had to fund his own research, even having to sell the gold medal awarded by the 1878 Exposition Universelle during 1880.

From the 11th to 15th centuries, the sugar trade into Europe was an Arab monopoly, and its value was often compared with gold.

Gabbro often contains valuable amounts of chromium, nickel, cobalt, gold, silver, platinum, and copper sulfides.

Gifts were often exchanged, especially rings: a gold coin broken in half between the couple was also common.

For example, city land owned by the imperial government was returned to the cities, city council members were compelled to resume civic authority, often against their will, and the tribute in gold by the cities called the aurum coronarium was made voluntary rather than a compulsory tax.

The name translates into English as " gold and silver scales "; it is often abbreviated to Ginrin.

As new areas were explored, it was usually the gold ( placer and then load ) and then silver that were taken first, with other metals often waiting for railroads or canals.

Although the cost of producing the gold standard can be quite high, automatic evaluation can be repeated as often as needed without much additional costs ( on the same input data ).

Yellow is often used for libertarianism or classical liberalism, due to yellow being the color of gold, which signifies the gold standard.

White gold is often plated with a thin rhodium layer to improve its optical impression while sterling silver is often rhodium plated for tarnish resistance.

As a noble metal akin to gold, this is often attributed to something along the lines of silver's Incorruptible Pure Pureness.

On the reverse side of each piece, other than the king and gold general, are one or two other characters, in amateur sets often in a different colour ( usually red ); this side is turned face up during play to indicate that the piece has been promoted.

The tip is often made of tungsten or platinum-iridium, though gold is also used.

Copper plated with nickel and gold is often used.

He is, however, hopeless at finding and identifying gold and often frustrates Scrooge by criticizing him for not being " McDuck-like " enough.

On various occasions, commemorative coins are minted, often using gold and silver with face values as high as 100, 000 yen.

International gold standards often limit which entities have the right to redeem currency for gold.