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California Gold Rush Start
How many people “rushed”?
-About 300,000 people rushed to California.
How much gold/silver was discovered?
-2 Billion Dollars worth of gold and precious metals What boomtown(s) sprung up as a result of the rush?
Belleville, San Fransico
1-2 lasting effects of the Gold/Silver Rush?
-Califronia's population boomed, Gaining enough people to become a state; economies around the world felt some effect from the rush; The gold profided a substantial boost to the american Economy. -
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California Gold Rush
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Peak of California Gold rush
Gold rush peak year, with a total of 81 Million dollars worth of gold being mined. After this, the rush slowly declined, until the Nevada Silver Rush. When silver was discovered, many of the miners who had failed to find gold moved to Nevada to try their luck with silver. -
Comstock Lode Rush Start
How many people “rushed”?
-10,000
How much gold/silver was discovered?
6,971,641 tons of Ore (easier to do tons for this one since it is more than one material)
What boomtown(s) sprung up as a result of the rush?
Johntown, Gold Hill
1-2 lasting effects of the Gold/Silver Rush?
Washoe Refining process was created for refining silver quickly, Nevada became known as the Silver state for the rush. -
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Comstock Lode Silver Rush
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Black Hills Gold Rush Start
How many people “rushed”?
11,000
How much gold/silver was discovered?
40 Million Ounces of gold, 9 million ounces of silver.
What boomtown(s) sprung up as a result of the rush?
Deadwood, Lead
1-2 lasting effects of the Gold/Silver Rush?
The battle of Little Big Horn, and the removal of the Souix from the area. -
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Black Hills Gold Rush
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Peak of Comstock Lode Rush
High point of the Silver Rush in Nevada, with a total of around 36 Million dollars worth of silver being extracted. After this the rush would slowly decline, and would eventually die off with the flooding of the mines lower levels in 1882 -
Aspen Silver Rush Start
How many people “rushed”?
7,000+
How much gold/silver was discovered?
101 million troy ounces of Silver
What boomtown(s) sprung up as a result of the rush?
Aspen
1-2 lasting effects of the Gold/Silver Rush?
Improvement of the United states Economy, Silver Purchase act -
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Aspen Silver Rush
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Telluride Rush
How many people “rushed”?
How much gold/silver was discovered?
What boomtown(s) sprung up as a result of the rush?
Telluride
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Telluride Rush & Mining operations
Note that though the Rush did start in 1887, the mining operations there did not truely end until 1953. -
Klondike Gold Rush Start
How many people “rushed”?
100,000
How much gold/silver was discovered?
$30,740,000,000 worth (total from mining which continued after the rush, modern usd)
What boomtown(s) sprung up as a result of the rush?
Dawson City,
1-2 lasting effects of the Gold/Silver Rush?
More transportation and comunication lines were established to Alaska; another rise in the american economy -
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Klondike Gold Rush
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Peak of the Klondike Gold Rush
The end of the major influx of people to the Klondike Region, though the Rush sort of ended in 1899 with the discovery of gold near Nome Alaska, the Klodike vein was re-opened in 1903 when heavier equipment was brought in.
