The Dale Mining District serves as an excellent example of how the hope for making a fortune from by striking it rich by recovering gold will draw people to hostile climates where they would rationally never want to live. The District would later confirm that nobody would put up with the privations of living in […]
The Bradshaw Mountains are a major mountain range in central Arizona. There has been a rich and long history with regard to gold mining in the area. Even today, the place is known to have a huge potential for someone to search for gold and find it in abundance. The mountains lie within Yavapai County, […]
The first gold discoveries in Oregon followed not long after the California Gold Rush. Miners ventured north across the border and found that many of the creeks and rivers in southern Oregon also contained gold. Almost a decade later, gold was found in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon, which ended up being the richest […]
Swansea is a ghost town located about 50 miles southwest of Lake Havasu in La Paz Country. The town itself was established in 1909, but the mineral discoveries of the surrounding hills were made much earlier. The town’s mining was centered primarily on mining of copper ore, where it was specialized in processing and smelting […]
The Nome Gold Rush was the name of a gold rush in Nome, Alaska which took place from 1899–1909. It was one of the richest gold strikes in the state, and was unique because much of gold gold was found amongst the the beach sands. What made Nome Gold Rush different other previous gold rushes […]
The Vermilion Lake Gold Rush refers to a small and short-lived gold rush that took place in Lake Vermilion, Minnesota. During the nineteenth century thousands of people flocked to the west to find their fortunes in gold, but in 1865 gold was uncovered in an unpredicted location – in northern Minnesota, just south of the […]
Earning a fortune in life has never been easy, however with much focus and determination to succeed, a lot of people have managed to attain good success by being extra vigilant to opportunities when they present themselves. Such was the case in the late 1840s when the rush for gold began. The Yuba River was […]
The first miners to come to the goldfields didn’t have much besides a pick and a pan. During the early days of the gold rush, it was hard, backbreaking manual labor that was needed if a miner wanted to find gold. As the years progressed, new inventions were made that made the extraction of gold […]
The world’s largest gold specimen was known as “The Beyers and Holtermann Nugget”. It was found in Australia during 1872. Despite its name, this was not actually a “nugget” as it was not one single piece of gold. However, it was still by far the largest mass of gold ever found. I say “was” because […]
Chloride, Arizona is a small settlement in the heart of Mohave County. It is a rather inconspicuous desert town if you visit now today, but at one time it was a booming mining camp. The Town is Founded… But Mining is Yet to Come That was the time when gold and silver was […]