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	Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
		The Chilkoot Trail, originally established by the Tlingit people as a trade route into the interior, became a major route during the gold rush.
		Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park preserves some of the original historic structures in the town of Skagway, Alaska.
		The Chilkoot Trail, in Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, is 33 miles long and is shared with our neighbor, Parks Canada.
	www.nps.gov /klgo (257 words)

	~ GOLD ~
		Early gold discoveries in Australia were kept quiet as many feared a gold rush would plunge the largely convict population into chaos and lawlessness.
		His well publicised discovery of gold in NSW marks the beginning the Australian gold rush, the mass migration and the frenzy that ensued.
		Some of the early theories about the origin of gold suggested that it was produced by volcanic heat, that it grew from a certain kind of clay, that it was created by lightning, or that in ancient times it had rained gold.
	www.sbs.com.au /gold (552 words)

	Victorian gold rush - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria in Australia between approximately 1851 and the early 1860s.
		The seekers used gold pans, puddling boxes and cradles to separate this alluvial gold from the dirt and water.
		It is difficult to underestimate the impact of the Gold Rush on Melbourne, on Victoria, and on Australia as a whole.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Victorian_gold_rush (508 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The gold rush is reflected in the architecture of Victorian gold-boom cities like Melbourne, Castlemaine, Ballarat, Bendigo and Ararat.
		The last major gold rush in Victoria was at Beringa, south of Ballarat, in the first decade of the 20th century.
		Gold mining later virtually ceased in Victoria, not because there was no more gold but in the main because of the depth and cost of pumping.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Victorian_gold_rush (902 words)

	Victorian gold rush - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By 1840 the village of Melbourne, in the very south of New South Wales, was nearly 5 years of age.
		Weeks later it was announced that gold had been found in Victoria and the population of Melbourne grew swiftly as the gold fever took hold:
		The seekers used gold pans,puddling boxes and cradles to separate this alluvial gold from the dirt and water.
	www.music.us /education/V/Victorian-gold-rush.htm (584 words)

	Victorian Gold - The Ian Potter Museum of Art
		The announcement of these discoveries sparked the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s and was to transform the colony from a small pastoral settlement into the commercial and cultural centre of Australia.
		By the end of the gold rush decade, the population of Victoria had reached over 500,000 – a dramatic increase from 80,000 in 1851 –; and over 25 million ounces of gold had been extracted from the Victorian fields, the equivalent of eleven billion dollars today.
		Victorian gold: The gold rush and its impact on cultural life – exhibition catalogue available from the Ian Potter Museum of Art.
	www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au /victorian_gold/index.html (375 words)

	Gold rush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold.
		The California gold rush led directly to the settlement of California by Americans and the rather rapid entry of that state in the union in 1850.
		The significance of gold rushes in history has given a longer life to the term, and it is now applied generally to capitalism to denote any economic activity in the participants aspire to race each other in common pursuit of a new and apparently highly lucrative market, often precipitated by an advance in technology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gold_rush (1155 words)

	Victorian Gold Rush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria in Australia between approximately 1851 and the early 1860s.
		The gold rush is reflected in the architecture of Victorian gold-boom cities like Melbourne, Castlemaine, Ballarat, Bendigo, Ararat, Maldon and Beechworth.
		The last major gold rush in Victoria was at Beringa, south of Ballarat, in the first decade of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victorian_gold_rush (872 words)

	The Australian Gold Rush
		The Australian gold rush was on, and by the end of 1851 some 250,000 ounces had been taken from the central Victorian region.
		A resident Gold Commissioner, protected by a military garrison, provided the means by which the miners' gold could be weighed, paid for, and transported under the protection of the gold escort to the Melbourne Treasury, and thence into canvas bags and down to the waiting ships to England.
		Victorians took pride in the fact that the emerging success of the state was not primarily founded on the back of convict transportation.
	www.patricktaylor.com /australian-gold-rush (2560 words)

	Gold rush information - Search.com
		A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold.
		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.
		The significance of gold rushes in history has given a longer life to the term, and it is now applied generally to capitalism to denote any economic activity in the participants aspire to race each other in common pursuit of a new and apparently highly lucrative market, often precipitated by an advance in technology.
	www.search.com /reference/Gold_rush (933 words)

	150 Years of Gold Mining in Victoria
		Following this report numerous gold discoveries were made in New South Wales but these were hushed up by a government fearful of the consequences it would have on the pastoral industry if workers left for the goldfields.
		Gold was found in Victoria in 1851, Queensland in 1858, Tasmania in 1886 and in Western Australia in 1886.
		This rush spread across to Deep Lead and the Warden reported at the height of the rush, said that there were 25,000 to 30,000 people there.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~shsinc/golddiscovery.html (719 words)

	The Victorian Gold Rush (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The news of gold discoveries in Australia captured the imagination of the world and sparked a massive influx of immigration to the young colony of Australia.
		In the early years of the gold rush, NSW and Victoria were the gold mining centres and attracted...
		The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria in Australia between approximately 1851 and the early...
	www.1-web-antique-metalware.info /23/the-victorian-gold-rush.html (708 words)

	The Ultimate Gold rush Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the history of the United States and Canadian, several gold rushes throughout the 19th century, first in the Appalachians, and later in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, helped spur permanent population of new regions and define a significant part of the culture of the North American frontier.
		The significance of gold rushes in history have given a longer life to the term, and it is now applied generally to capitalism to denote any economic activity in the participants aspire to race each other in common pursuit of a new and apparently highly lucrative market, often precipitated by an advance in technology.
		Gold rushes, by comparision, reflected a spontaneous grassroots capitalism akin to homesteading, but centered on mining rather than agriculture.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Gold_rush (675 words)

	Politics and Culture
		Women also prospected (at one stage 60 women were digging for gold on the goldfields), they raised children and did domestic labour in canvas tents and generally awful conditions, and they worked as milliners, shoe binders, cooks, nurses, prostitutes, brothel keepers, store keepers, and hotel keepers.
		The gold rush depopulated the urban centres, stripped the squatters of their labour force, drove up wages, and emptied the state of much of its administration.
		Gold Commissioner Rede told Hotham that an attack on the diggers was imperative in order 'to crush them and the democratic movement at one blow'.
	aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=362 (6069 words)

	Discovernet: Australian Tales - Gold rush!
		Usually gold was found in small specks, but the gold rush fever was intensified by the occasional discovery of large nuggets.
		Today, the gold industry is well established and instead of hundreds of gold miners panning for gold in riverbeds and creeks, the work is done by huge machines that sift through mountains of rock, extracting microscopic amounts of the precious metal.
		Gold even travels into space because of its ability to reflect heat and radiation - it is used in the construction of satellites and as a thin coating on the visors of spacesuit helmets to protect astronauts!
	amol.org.au /discovernet/tales/gold.asp (1474 words)

	Wikinfo \| Victorian gold rush
		In July 1851 the population of 29,000 celebrated as they broke away from New South Wales and the Colony of Victoria was born.
		Weeks later it was announced that gold had been found in Victoria and the population of Melbourne grew swiftly as the gold fever took hold:
		The seekers used gold pans,puddling boxes and cradles to separate this alluvial gold from the dirt and water.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Victorian_gold_rush (434 words)

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		Gold was well known to exist prior to the rushes of 1851, as we shall shortly have a quick look at; yet little was done about it.
		Diverting for a moment from gold, we can see a few examples of the early mining of metals, other than gold, was already an established industry prior to the gold rushes, so mining was not an unknown activity in Australia.
		Gold was noticed in the bottom of the race but was dismissed as Mica by the owner, David Reid.
	users.netconnect.com.au /~likelyp/goldfields_victoria.html (1734 words)

	Family Locations: James William Izzard (c1813-1895) - Izzard Family History
		In 1850 Geelong was the fifth largest town in the Colony of Victoria, but with the onset of the gold rush its importance grew and the population expanded dramatically from 8,000 in 1851 to 22,000 in 1853.
		However, the importance of Geelong in the gold rush declined because a false map was commissioned by Melbourne traders to give the impression Melbourne was closer to the Ballarat gold fields than Geelong; this encouraged gold diggers to use Melbourne as their staging post.
		As a result of the gold rush, Melbourne became the financial centre of Australia and New Zealand and by the 1880s Melbourne was the largest city in Australia and the second largest city in the British Empire.
	www.btinternet.com /~izzardhistory/residenceIzzardJames1813.shtml (431 words)

	Discovernet: Australian Tales - Gold rush!
		Usually gold was found in small specks, but the gold rush fever was intensified by the occasional discovery of large nuggets.
		Today, the gold industry is well established and instead of hundreds of gold miners panning for gold in riverbeds and creeks, the work is done by huge machines that sift through mountains of rock, extracting microscopic amounts of the precious metal.
		Gold even travels into space because of its ability to reflect heat and radiation - it is used in the construction of satellites and as a thin coating on the visors of spacesuit helmets to protect astronauts!
	archive.amol.org.au /discovernet/tales/gold.asp (1474 words)

	USAGOLD Gold Discussion Forum Archive
		The California gold rush led directly to the settlement of California by Americans and the rather rapid entry of that state in the union in 1850.
		In South Africa, the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in the Transvaal was equally important to that country’s history, leading to the founding of Johannesburg and tensions between the Boers and British settlers.
		Although gold is found throughout the Korean peninsula, it was, for the most, primarily mined and panned for in the mountainous regions of the northern provinces of Korea and along the eastern coast using primitive methods.
	www.usagold.com /cpmforum/archives/2820072/default.html (7070 words)

	The Gold Rush
		It soon became apparent that the gold was too difficult to use in it's raw state and on 9th January, 1852, a group of influential merchants approached Lieutenant-Governor Sir Henry Young to start up a mint to convert the gold dust to coin.
		They were simply a flat strip of gold (some said flattened by a steam roller) which bore an official crown seal and punch figures showing the fineness of the gold which was roughly standardised at 23 and one eighth carats.
		In 1919, twelve gold and two silver restrikes of the Adelaide Five Pound coin were especially struck as historical artefacts by the Melbourne Mint, using Joshua Payne's original dies.
	www.australianstamp.com /Coin-web/aust/goldrush.htm (4018 words)

	Antiques Oronoco: Furniture: Victorian Furniture
		The Victorian style in furniture, jewelry and home furnishings of all types came from the late 1800s, during the reign of Queen Victoria of England.
		Victorian High Chairs, like the one shown, are in high demand as nursery and dining room decor.
		Victorian furniture, which predates most popular country furniture, has heavy, darker wood and features more upholstery.
	www.antiques-oronoco.com /furniture/victorian.php3 (196 words)

	The Australian Gold Rush - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal
		The gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the lives of those who worked the goldfields - the 'diggers' - are etched into our national folklore.
		Gold fever gripped the nation and the colonial authorities responded by appointing 'Commissioners of Land' to regulate the diggings and collect licence fees for each 'claim'.
		The discovery of gold in NSW and Victoria accelerated the abolition of convict transportation to the east coast of Australia, and ultimately to the nation as a whole.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/goldrush (1573 words)

	Geological Heritage Tours: Gauteng Historical Gold
		Southern Africa's indigenous people mined gold for hundreds of years prior to the influx of Europeans in the 19th C. Considerable gold, largely of alluvial origin, was probably recovered during the first part of the 2nd Millenium.
		The discovery of gold at Blaauwbank near the village of Magaliesberg by Australian Henry Lewis in 1874 and establishment of the first gold mining operation in the region.
		In 1882 gold was discovered nearby on the farm Tweefontein and in 1885 Siegmund Hammerschlag installed a 10 stamp crushing battery, the first on the Witwatersrand.
	www.geosites.co.za /historicalgold.htm (1110 words)

	Victorian Gold Rush Information
		The gold rush had a large influence on Melbourne, on Victoria, and on Australia as a whole.
		The Eureka Stockade, an armed protest or revolt over what the miners perceived as unfair policing and harsh taxation, is widely regarded as important in Victoria and Australia's democratic development.
		The gold rush is reflected in the architecture of Victorian gold-boom cities like Melbourne, Castlemaine, Ballarat, Bendigo, Ararat, Maldon and Beechworth.
	www.bookrags.com /Victorian_gold_rush (790 words)

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