New Gold Rush In California
California Gold Rush
The Modern California Gold Rush
With spot prices of gold over $1,750 per ounce a modern day California gold rush is underway. This record high gold price has many people once again, heading to the California hills to mine and pan for the precious metal.
The recession and high gold prices are bringing on a new California Gold Rush. As AP’s Haven Daley reports, the 1849 Gold Rush only removed an estimated 10 percent of the precious metal, so there’s still plenty of gold “in them thar hills.” California gold nuggets
The California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush from 1848-1853
Another very good video on the history of the California gold rush. The best looking California gold is known as Crystalline Gold. Click this link to view California Crystalline Gold.
California Gold Rush 1848
California Gold Rush 1848
By 1850, most of the easily accessible gold had been collected, and attention turned to extracting gold from more difficult locations. Faced with gold increasingly difficult to retrieve, Americans began to drive out foreigners to get at the most accessible gold that remained. The new California State Legislature passed a foreign miners tax of twenty dollars per month.
View natural California gold nuggets and see what was at the heart of the California gold rush.
Califormia Gold Nugget
Califormia Gold Nugget Found
With the price of gold over $1600 an ounce, many believe a new California gold rush has begun. Does anyone really believe the gold miners of 1849 found all the gold there was? With modern technology and equipment it’s easier to discover gold and to recover gold at a cost that makes it profitable to do so.
