Gold rush
new discovery of gold that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A gold rush is when a lot of miners go to a mining place full of gold. Well-known examples are the California Gold Rush of 1848, the Australian gold rush which began in 1851, or the Fraser river gold rush in British Columbia, Canada in 1858.[1]
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