what happened to the miners during the Klondike Gold rush after they didnt attain any gold?
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they all became bums. Some starved, others built San-Francisco
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The author (Marinville) ended up sacrificing himself and let the others escape...He blew up the mine.\nMary got away from Tak...\n\nWhat I was most puzzled by is what happened to Mary's husband Peter and Pi's bodies that were left at the bottom of the stairs.\n\nIt will probably be on DVD soon.
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The short answer is: You look at the price of gold and the cost per ounce of recovering the gold. You also look at the amount of reserve that is believed to be in the mine (s). Mining companies are tough to value sometimes, because when the mine runs out they're basically worth the salvage value of the equipment if they don't find another great area to mine.
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I have. Last Oct. Too many strip mines. They ( Coal Companies ) are destroying that part of the world. It was not pretty.
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According to Luis L'Amour, they were mostly pretty young; teenagers, a lot of them.  It was a very difficult and demanding job that did not pay very well, and the older guys basically found easier things to do.
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In a remote South African gold mine, a miner was setting dynamite to blast a seam when it exploded taking one of his legs clean off.  As he was stretchered out, he was heard to sob "What will happen to me? I have a family to look after, we are very poor...who's ever going to want a one legged gold digger?" then his mobile phone rings..."Hello?  Who?  Oh, Sir Paul...what an honour..."\n\nOR...\n\nDid you hear that Paul's giving Heather her own plane as part of their divorce settlement?  She still has to shave the other leg herself though.
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Miners used mercury (quicksilver) to recover gold throughout the western United States at both placer (alluvial) and hardrock (lode) mines. The vast majority of mercury lost to the environment in California was from placer-gold mines, which used hydraulic, drift, and dredging methods. At hydraulic mines, placer ores were broken down with monitors (or water cannons, fig. 1) and the resulting slurry was directed through sluices and drainage tunnels, where gold particles combined with liquid mercury to form gold-mercury amalgam. Loss of mercury in this process was 10 to 30 percent per season (Bowie, 1905), resulting in highly contaminated sediments at mine sites (fig. 2). Elevated mercury concentrations in present-day mine waters and sediments indicate that hundreds to thousands of pounds of mercury remain at each of the many sites affected by hydraulic mining.\n\n\nhope that helps
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Yes, this happened in my own family, though before I was born. Great-grandad was a coal miner, and his sons went to work in the mines too, as soon as they were 14. My grandfather's younger brother, Orville, was afraid of caves and mines even when he was a little child, specifically he was terrified of a cave in. He begged and begged not to be sent to the mines when he "grew up", but the family was very poor and that was the only kind of work available. Uncle Orville's first day on the job, a little bit of gravel fell from the 'ceiling' of the mine onto his back and he fell down dead on the spot, at age 14. There were over a dozen reliable witnesses.
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JUst from the top of my head\n\nNo I dont beleive they were plain indians\nThey were short, strong legs and the reason there were so much difficulty catching them was because they were mountain people\nFor the longuest time they did not need horses.\n\nLater, they needed to live in the plains due to reservation policy.\nTHey were taken away from their natural territories to be located in reservations ( I think they were sent to the Four Corners (around Oklahoma) which was very different from where they came from....\n\nI have Mohawk ancestry...\n\nHope I am not too off the mark...
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They never existed. Joseph Smith was a lying con artist victimizing the weak and ignorant.
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Fred,\nCheck out this website. I live in rural Nevada where over half the United States gold is mined so I use this site quite a bit.  Here's the link\nhttp://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mapdata/
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Nowhere as all of the evidence says that it's not credible that he had it in the first place. It seems like yet one more story that is so common when a country is defeated. A story that gives hope that all is not lost. The confederacy in the US has such a story about gold taken to another place in order to finance a return. There are stories of the same with Nazi Germany. Throughout history, same story. But if someone ever did get away with it whatever the period you can bet no one would ever know as they wouldn't want someone coming after them for it later.
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Fact: During the early days of the gold rush many easterners came out west looking for gold. Many stopped in Nevada not wanting to make the trip of the Sierras. They mined and mined looking for gold nuggets and all they found were clumps of black metal that they kept throwing out as waste. The black metal was actually pure silver in it's rough, unpolished form and no one realized!\n\nFact: California is called "The Golden State" because of the gold rush of 1949\n\nFact: Pyrite or "Fool's Gold" is often mistaken for gold nuggets but it has little value of it's own.
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A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. In the history of the United States and Canada, several gold rushes took place throughout the 19th century, first in the Appalachians, and later in the Sierra Nevada, the Fraser Canyon, the Cariboo district and other parts of British Columbia, and the Rocky Mountains. Gold rushes helped spur permanent population of new regions and define a significant part of the culture of the North American frontier. Similar gold rushes took place during the 19th century in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa\n\nGold 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 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.
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Not quite they answer to the question, but, I used to work with a gold process. We used to recover gold as gold sulphide precipitate, by making alkaline, then adding sodium hydrosulphite. The sulphide was then sent to a refinery company, to recover the gold.
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It has already been done..\n I can remember when mining disasters were an everyday occurrence. More people are killed by disgruntle fellow workers than any single industrial job produces.
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none...they were alwasy there...