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Gold Rush

lure of instant riches precipitated onslaught of prospectors (1848, 1886). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 203]
See: Frenzy
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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He asked the the Provincial Mining Regulatory Board (PMRB) to closely the monitor the encroachment of illegal miners into the abandoned mining tunnels within the Kematu's gold rush area.
He previously predicted that Brexit would prompt a gold rush which could generate his firm sales of up to PS10 million in a single day, as investors sought to protect their wealth.
Critique: Enhanced with the inclusion of a number of period photographs, "Gold Rush in the Klondike" is an inherently fascinating and consistently compelling memoir.
Drawing on new sources, Constable studies the micro and macroeconomics of the California Gold Rush through a two-year window of financial transactions.
The customers get a chance to participate in the 'The Great Gold Rush' campaign until 30 June 2015.
The meteoric rise in the price of gold has spawned a 21stcentury gold rush in the abandoned mines of Itogon as leftover lowgrade deposits became big business once more.
Mohammed Maqsood Ali, the 4th winner of the Great Gold Rush promotion of Malabar Gold & Diamonds, receives the prize of quarter kilo gold from Gaffoor Edakkuni, regional director, Malabar Gold & Diamonds, in Riyadh.
India, April 21 -- Microsoft India has today made its Xbox Live Gold Rush Program official in India.
Specialty finance company, Capital Financial Global Inc (OTC Pink: CFGX), has said that it has successfully completed the acquisition of USD5.1m dollars of debt in Gold Rush Refiners Llc, a distressed Georgia-based gold and precious metals refinery.
was packing for a redux of the Klondike Gold Rush Dawson City, the 8- street, 1,800- people squat town Yukon ( Canada) where gold was discovered on August 16, 1896.
Rush to the Rockies!; the 1859 Pikes Peak or Bust gold rush.
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