National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Montana Junior College: Mining History and Geology of the California Gold Rush
The physical characteristics, history, and mining of gold in California are examined in this thorough site.
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The California Gold Country: The Mining Camps
This site is based on the book The California Gold Country: Highway 49 Revisited by Elliot H. Koeppel. This page provides an interactive map showing gold mining camps that have survived and exist as towns today. Most of the place names...
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: As Precious as Gold
"As Precious as Gold," is an online exhibit from the National Postal Museum which explores the rich history of the Alaskan/Klondike gold rushes. Find stories on extraordinary women, the trails, the Palm Sunday avalanche, the U.S. Postal...
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California State Parks: Gold Rush
The California State Parks presents a brief unit on the California Gold Rush including three lessons which begin with the westward movement to California for gold, the actual process of mining for gold, then the effects of the rush on...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Prospecting for Gold in the United States
This informative site delves into the difficulty of prospecting for gold. A detailed description of placer deposits and lode gold is included in this site.
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Cprr History Museum: Hydraulic Gold Mining in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Provides pictures and information about hydraulic mining where jets of water were used to break down gold-laden gravel banks for gold.
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Newmont Mining Corporation: The Mining Process
This site describes the process of mining for gold. Covers exploration, determining the mining method, analyzing the impact, building and operating the mine, ore processing, mine closure, and the reclamation process.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Gold Mining in the Uwharries
In the early decades of the 1800s, the southern Piedmont's gold mines attracted prospectors, investors, and miners. Tar Heel gold had first been found in 1799 on John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County, several miles west of the Uwharrie...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Top 10 Gold Producing Countries in the World
Provides information about the top ten gold-producing countries, including how much they produce and what percent of foreign currency reserves that is.
Sacramento Bee
Gold Rush: Mother Lode Now Strikes Gold in Tourism
This CalGoldRush.com site contains an article on the effects that the California gold rush has on California's tourism. Many people still come from far lands to get a glimpse of what is was like to be a gold miner.
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Golden Dreams: Silver Linings: History of Mining in Idaho
Read the exciting story of mining in Idaho, the state's first industry. Find out about the first discovery of gold and the migration that it set off soon after.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Gold
Heinrich Schliemann is briefly mentioned as part of a larger discussion about the geology of gold. A brief history of the precious metal refers to the gravesites discovered by Schliemann at the ancient city of Mycenae in Greece.
Calisphere: University of California Libraries
University of California: Calisphere: Gold Rush Era: Environmental Impact
Original photographs depicting scenes from California during the Gold Rush. Illustrations of mines, miners at work, and the tools they used as well as the effect of the mining industry on California's landscape.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
In this section, students will learn about the major discoveries and developments in western gold, silver, and copper mining in the mid-nineteenth century. They will be able to explain why the cattle industry was paramount to the...
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Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years: Mining
An explanation of the role speculation in both mining and railroads played in the financial panic of 1893. An interesting article from the University of Nevada.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Suvrvey: Gold
General information about the consumption and mining of gold.
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Alaska Department of Education: Alaska's Gold
This comprehensive resource looks at the discovery of gold through the use of nonconventional means. Students read diaries, newspapers, maps, photographs, and government documents and view things people used in their everyday lives.
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California Gold Country: No Place for a Woman?
Information about women in the California gold camps.
Duke University
California Gold: The Diary and Letters of James M. Burr
Wonderful primary resource on the California Gold Rush. Read actual letters and a diary--with explanatory annotations--by a prospector from 1850-1853.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina: Reed Gold Mine
An image of the Reed Gold Mine.
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New York Public Library: Heading West: Mining the West
A short page on the discovery of gold at Sutter's Fort as well as the impact of mining in the west on relations with Native Americans.
Oakland Museum of California
California's Untold Stories: Silver and Gold
This site provides a virtual tour of the mining of silver and gold in California through excellent photos and facts.
Oakland Museum of California
Gold Rush: Gold Fever! Prospecting
This resource presents information about prospecting. You will learn about the history and see pictures on how it was done.
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