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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. American pioneer who discovered gold in California in 1848 For other people named James W. Marshall, see James W. Marshall (disambiguation). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced ...
The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. [1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [ 2 ]
However, the committee also considered the claim of Louis Michel, who had discovered gold at Anderson's Creek, in the town of Warrandyte; the committee determined that Michel had both discovered gold and reported the discovery on 5 July 1851, the same day that Esmond showed the Clunes gold to Alfred Clarke in Geelong. [1]
Gold, a chemical element; Genomes OnLine Database; Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity; GOLD (parser), an open-source parser-generator of BNF-based grammars; Graduates of the Last Decade, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers program to garner more university level student members
George Washington Carmack (September 24, 1860 – June 5, 1922) was an American prospector in the Yukon.He was originally credited with registering Discovery Claim, the discovery of gold that set off the Klondike Gold Rush on August 16, 1896.
Replica (1968–2014) The site of the mill is part of the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, registered as California Historical Landmark number 530. [10]On September 8, 1965, a groundbreaking was held to begin the construction of a replica of the original structure, based on Marshall's own drawings and a photograph of the mill taken circa 1850. [11]
Since mankind discovered gold, it has been irresistibly drawn to the lure of the pretty material. Yet that sure wasn't much in evidence on Monday, as the price of the precious metal swooned ...
The farm outside of Johannesburg, near Paarlshoop, on the Witwatersrand – site of the first discovery of gold in 1886. The first discovery of gold in the region was made in 1852 on the Pardekraal farm, Krugersdorp, in the South African Republic (ZAR) by John Henry Davis, a Welsh mineralogist. [1] [2]: 11 Davis presented his gold find to ...