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unusual facts about gold mining


Goldmine

Gold mining, the extraction of gold, usually from rock or sediment


Daffy Duck in Hollywood

Hamburger shows the "film", which contains humorous live action clips of random scenes, such as gold mining, square dancing, the World Championship Fight in Madison Round Garden, etc.

Eureka, Victoria

The suburb takes its name from the Eureka Lead the gold mining lead of the Eureka Mining Company and is most notable as the site of the historic event of the Eureka Rebellion and the flag flown by the rebels known as the Eureka Flag both of which have national significance to Australia.

Morobe Goldfield

The Morobe goldfield is in Morobe, Papua New Guinea, and mined gold.


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Adolf Goerz

He founded Adolf Görz & Co which later became the Union Corporation, which was one of the five original gold mining houses of South Africa.

Alfred Themba Qabula

Qabula moved to the gold-mining town of Carletonville and entered the construction trade, living a meager existence in the hostels and compounds of the area.

Alma, Victoria

Alma began as a gold-mining settlement and was named after the Battle of Alma in the Crimean War.

Ashanti Gold SC

Ashanti Gold Sporting Club popularly known as AshGold is a football club based in the gold mining town of Obuasi, south of Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

Fruitlands

Fruitlands, New Zealand, 19th century gold mining settlement in the Central Otago district of the South Island; picturesque tourist area which takes its name from unsuccessful 1920s orchards

Geology of Benin

In addition to artisanal gold mining, geological materials for industry and construction are worked.

Georgia Gold Rush

Cherokee gold miners gave the name to the town of Cherokee, California, as well as to a number of other geographic features in the California gold-mining region.

Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs

Notable guests to this historic destination hotel in the Victorian period included San Francisco Mayor James Phelan, gold mining magnate Adolph Sutro, Claus Spreckels and singer Margaret Alverson Blake.

Glacier, Washington

Originally a site for gold mining and logging, commercial influence was probably the reason for both residential growth and interest by the Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad.

Gold mining in Virginia

Monroe Park in Goldvein has a museum about gold mining operations in the area, with some reconstructed buildings and historical artifacts.

Hanging Rock, New South Wales

This former gold mining town is situated about 10 km south east of Nundle.

Homestake

Homestake Mining Company, one of the largest gold mining businesses in the United States from the 19th century through the beginning of the 21st

Joseph W. Boyle

Boyle was early to recognize the potential of large-scale gold mining in the Klondike gold fields, and as the initial placer mining operations waned after 1900, Boyle and other companies imported equipment to assemble enormous dredges, usually electric-powered, that took millions more ounces of gold from the creeks while turning the landscape upside-down, shifting creeks.

Lindsay, California

Julius Orton, a seventh generation descendant of Thomas, served as security for a pack train headed for Placerville, a booming California gold mining town, motivated by his futile search for gold.

Lingbao

Lingbao Gold (灵宝黄金), gold mining company headquartered in Lingbao City

Martín von Hildebrand

Since the 1950s, however, the Colombian Amazon and its indigenous peoples have suffered from waves of colonistion and exploitation: peasant refugees during the time of 'La Violencia'; colonists following in the wake of petroleum exploration; economic booms for rubber extraction, gold mining and the illicit processing of coca; government and aid-agency sponsored resettlement and development programs.

Mining in Papua New Guinea

The Porgera Gold Mine is a large gold mining operation located in Enga province.

Mount Gulaga

These Pyrite-rich veins (which range in size from 15 to 45 cm) were mined by the Mount Dromedary Gold Mining Company.

Mount Pereleshin

--first name not known--> who had been sent to the area by Rear-Admiral Andrei Alexandrovich Popov to investigate whether Russian interests in the area had been impacted by gold-mining activity from the recent Stikine Gold Rush of 1861-1862.

Old Cariboo Road

In Washington Territory a wagon road from Wallula (Fort Nez Percés near Walla Walla) to the gold mining regions of British Columbia was known as the "Cariboo Trail" or the "Wallula-Okanogan Road".

Parkway–South Sacramento, California

Stockton Boulevard and Franklin Boulevard extend southerly from Downtown Sacramento and were used from the earliest days of the "gold mining" era for land routes to Stockton as well as to travel to farming areas.

Patrice Motsepe

He also sits on several company boards including being the non-executive chairman of Harmony Gold, the 12th largest gold mining company in the world, and is the deputy chairman of Sanlam.

Sid Grauman

He formed the Black Hills Exploration Corporation in a gold mining effort near Deadwood, South Dakota.

Solomon Joel

He was also kept busy with his enlarged family's diamond and gold mining interests, activities in brewing, the theatre (the Drury Lane Theatre in London) and railways (the City and South London Railway).

Tavua

Tavua, Fiji 91 kilometres from Nadi and 9 kilometres from the gold mining settlement of Vatukoula

Tyaughton Creek

In the 1930s, times when the Bridge River Country was as much known for big-game hunting as for gold mining, Charlie Cunningham, a guide and multi-faceted entrepreneur in the goldfield hub of Gold Bridge first promoted the idea of protecting the region north of Gun Creek and west of Tyaughton and south of Relay, as a wildlife preserve and scenic wilderness treasure, and in the process became a pioneering wildlife cinematographer.

W. A. Boyle

Boyle was born in a gold mining camp in Bald Butte, Montana (about two miles southwest of Marysville), in 1904 to James and Catherine (Mallin).

Wandoan railway line

This proposed line would be well east of Taroom, and pass close to the former gold mining town of Cracow.

Wyalong

In 2004 Barrick Gold is undertaking gold mining 43 km west at Lake Cowal through the process of in situ cyanide leaching, a variant of the controversial process of Gold cyanidation.

Yanghwajin Foreigners' Cemetery

Albert Wilder "Bruce" Taylor (1875–1948) American gold mining executive and UPA (later UPI) correspondent, lived in Korea for the majority of his life with his wife, Mary Linley Taylor.