gold rushes
Mineral discovery frenzies
Gold rushes is the plural of gold rush—a period when large numbers of people migrate to an area where gold has been discovered, hoping to strike it rich.
The California Gold Rush of 1849 and the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 are the most famous examples.
Figuratively, any frenzied pursuit of sudden wealth: the dot-com gold rush of the 1990s.
- panningLateral camera traverse
- El DoradoFabled golden city
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
- discoveriesNewly revealed facts
- gold miningExtracting precious ore
boom · stampede · goldfields · California Gold Rush · sourdough · forty-niners · Klondike · mining camps · tent city · mining towns · boom town · wagons · nuggets · frontier · wild west · sluice · staking · claim jumping
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- 1800sVictorian era, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution, Abraham Lincoln
- precious metalsgold, silver, platinum, palladium, bullion
gold rushesplanned economies
State-controlled resource allocation
subsistence farming · sustainable development · industrial planning · long-term investment · economic stagnation
gold rusheshomesteading
Self-reliant land-based lifestyle
ghost towns · abandonment · planned communities · depopulation · emigration
gold rushesbusts
Head-and-shoulders sculptures
resource depletion · resource scarcity · diminishing returns