Gold rushes and agricultural industries brought prosperity.

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Gold rushes helped spur a huge immigration that often led to permanent settlement of new regions and define a significant part of the culture of the Australian and North American frontiers.

Gold rushes presumably extend back as far as gold mining, to the Roman Empire, whose gold mining was described by Diodorus Siculus and Pliny the Elder, and probably further back to Ancient Egypt.

Gold rushes happened at or around:

One of the last " great gold rushes " was the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon Territory ( 1896 – 99 ), immortalized in the novels of Jack London, the poetry of Robert W. Service and Charlie Chaplin's film The Gold Rush.

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Placer mining is an important source of gold, and was the main technique used in the early years of many gold rushes, including the California Gold Rush.

As the Fraser River and Cariboo Gold rushes took off in 1858 – 61 the Oppenheimers established stores catering to the prospectors and settlers in the Interior of the Colony of British Columbia at Yale, Hope, and Lytton in the Fraser Canyon, Barkerville in the Cariboo, and Fisherville at the Wild Horse Creek goldfield in the East Kootenay.

) In North America, placer mining was famous in the context of several gold rushes, particularly the California Gold Rush, the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush.

There have been a series of gold rushes in the surrounding region since the original one, including a large hard-rock one in the upper Bridge River Country which began in the 1880s and 1890s but had its peak from the 1930s to the 1950s, focussed on two main mining towns at Bralorne and adjacent Pioneer Mine and that area's main base town of Gold Bridge.

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Gold discoveries in Beechworth, Ballarat and Bendigo sparked gold rushes similar to the California Gold Rush.

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Category: Gold rushes

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Gold was discovered near Jarbidge in 1909, making it the site of one of the last gold rushes in the Old West and, incidentally was the site of the last stagecoach robbery in 1916.

On 2 August 1851, gold was discovered in Ballarat, marking the beginning of the Victorian Gold Rush-one of the biggest gold rushes in the world-which once again raised the value of Ormond's land.

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From 2011 to 2012 two new teams were added to the competition — the Gold Coast Suns in 2011 and the Greater Western Sydney Giants in 2012.

Bacardí Gold, Bacardí 8, and Bacardí Reserva Limitada were also awarded International High Quality Trophy awards at the 2010 Monde Selection ’ s World Quality Selections.

Gold coins were used for large purchases, payment of the military and backing of state activities.

With strong defense – Dernier CF and Sandberg 2B, won the NL Gold Glove-solid pitching and clutch hitting, the Cubs were a well balanced team.

The Valley Gold investment scheme was created to help supporters fund the return to The Valley, and several players were also sold to raise funds.

In Africa, posts were established on the Gold Coast ( now Ghana ), the Slave Coast ( now Benin ), and briefly in Angola.

After the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, it became apparent that the Dutch West India Company was no longer capable of defending its own colonies, as Sint Eustatius, Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara, and some forts on the Dutch Gold Coast were rapidly taken by them.

Gold denominations were in units of silver ; silver, in units of bronze.

Nevertheless, as a direct result of the failings of the Dieppe raid, the British made several innovations – most notably Hobart's Funnies – specialized armoured vehicles which, in the course of the Normandy Landings, undoubtedly saved many lives on those three beachheads upon which Commonwealth soldiers were landing ( Gold Beach, Juno Beach, and Sword Beach ).

The other five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966 – 1974, and this record is closely followed by a select group of players who have won two of the awards ( either Gold and Silver or Gold and Bronze, or Silver and Bronze ).

Gold and silver leaf were placed on food surfaces and brushed with egg whites.

The Australian Gold Kangaroos were first coined in 1986 as the Australian Gold Nugget but changed the reverse design in 1989.

On March 6, 1970, however, their safehouse was destroyed when an explosive they were constructing was accidentally detonated, killing three Weathermen ( Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton ).

In the Solid Gold line or re-releases InvisiClues were integrated into the game.

Five games ( Zork I, Planetfall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wishbringer and Leather Goddesses of Phobos ) were re-released in Solid Gold format.

Gold and silver were mined in the Balkans, Anatolia, Armenia, Cyprus, Egypt and Nubia.

Although famous throughout California for his association with the Gold Rush, Sutter died almost poor, having seen his business ventures fail while those of his elder son, John Augustus Sutter, Jr., were more successful.

Gold coins were first copied dinars and bore Kufic script, but after 1250 Christian symbols were added following Papal complaints ( British Museum ).

At least 25 titles were recorded, from Kit Carson, Prince of the Gold Hunters ( 1849 ) through Kit Carson, King of Scouts ( 1923 ).

Fuchs ' statements to British and American intelligence agencies were used to implicate Harry Gold, a key witness in the trials of David Greenglass and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the USA.

Numerous game developers were recruited to produce games for the system, including Jeff Minter's Llamasoft, Electronic Arts, Psygnosis, Ocean, Palace and U. S. Gold, with Konix promising 40 games to be available by Christmas.

The origins and the complex history of liquid crystal displays from the perspective of an insider during the early days were described by Joseph A. Castellano in Liquid Gold: The Story of Liquid Crystal Displays and the Creation of an Industry.