gold seekers
Miners seeking riches
Gold seekers are people searching for gold, typically in pursuit of wealth during a gold rush or through prospecting.
The term evokes 19th-century fortune hunters who flocked to California, Alaska, and Australia: Gold seekers panned the rivers for nuggets.
It can extend metaphorically to anyone chasing quick riches or rare opportunities.
- panningLateral camera traverse
- sluicingWashing with flowing water
- dredgingExtracting underwater sediment
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- adventureRisky exciting undertaking
greed · prospectors · claim staking · El Dorado · wagon train · Sutter's Mill · risk-taking · Yukon Territory · folklore · boomtowns · mining camp · staking a claim · Pikes Peak · entrepreneurship · migration · metal detectors · mother lode · strike it rich
- gold minersforty-niners, prospectors, panners
- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Denali, Sitka, Kodiak
- Frontier Figurespioneers, settlers, homesteaders, explorers, trappers
- Gold Rushgoldfield, prospectors, sluice, forty-niners, Sutter's Mill
- seekersseekers, treasure hunters, searcher, fortune seekers, fortune-seekers
- prospectorsprospectors, miners, panners, forty-niners
gold seekershomesteaders
Land-claiming rural settlers
settlers · yeoman farmers · ranchers · agrarians · townsfolk
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