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The Golden Chain Highway: Whitewater and Mining
While remnants of old mining equipment still poke up in or near the river, the rush for gold has mostly been replaced by the rush for adrenaline. Each of the American’s three forks serve up ...
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The Gold Rush Impact on Native Tribes
It just so happens it was the area where they found the gold at Sutter's Mill along the American River. And this gold strike brought thousands of people from every place known to man into our ...
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Mining gold in North Carolina: The anatomy of the first American gold rush
After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early ...
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In El Salvador, a river without fish feeds fear of mining
El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream ... a ban on metal mining. Bukele billed the move as a way of invigorating the Central American country's ...
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Impact on California's Landscape
Seeking gold ... mining. When the water receded, it left behind eight-foot drifts of silt in Sacramento. Riverside farms were buried in sand. In George Briggs' orchard on the Yuba River, three ...