Hydraulic mining was used extensively during the early years of the California Gold Rush and is still done to a lesser extent even today. Within the first few years of the initial discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, most of gold placers that were easy to workable were already claimed. There were still many areas […]
The Alaska Gold Rush actually started with a gold discovery in the Klondike Region of northwestern Canada on August 16, 1896. The remote location and harsh winter prevented widespread reports of the recent gold discovery from reaching Seattle and San Francisco until the summer of 1897. Like many of the gold rushes before it, excitement […]