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Patio Process
a hispanic minning meathod which used mercury to extract silver from ore -
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Minning Boom
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Boom Begins
First promising minning discoveries after the Caifornia gold rush, took place in Pikes Peak, Colorado -
Moving west
thousands of people flocked to Colorado -
Carson River Valley
More successful minning operations began taking place in the present day Carson River Valley -
Alaska
William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska -
Big Buisness
By this point, very few lone miners were minning, it was mainly companies and coorperations moving in and doing large scale minning operation -
Machinery
More and more different field machines were being made to quicken the process of minning as a company -
More discoveries
Prospecters discovered gold in Klondic district of Columbia -
Yukon Minning
Miners in the Yukon had extracted over 1 million dollars worth of gold -
Minning moving North
More discoverises in the Yukon brought more and more miners north in search of a fortune