Editing Gold rush (section)

===North America===

{{further information|Gold mining in the United States|Klondike Gold Rush}}
The first significant gold rush in the United States was in [[Cabarrus County, North Carolina]] (east of Charlotte), in 1799 at today's [[Reed's Gold Mine]].<ref name="The North Carolina Gold Rush">{{cite web|title=The North Carolina Gold Rush|url=http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/4374|work=Tar Heel Junior Historian 45, no. 2 (Spring 2006) copyright North Carolina Museum of History.}}</ref> Thirty years later, in 1829, the [[Georgia Gold Rush]] in the southern [[Appalachian Mountains|Appalachians]] occurred. It was followed by the [[California Gold Rush]] of 1848–55 in the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]], which captured the popular imagination. The California Gold Rush led to an influx of gold miners and newfound gold wealth, which led to California's rapid industrialization, as businesses sprung up to serve the increased population and financial and political institutions to handle the increased wealth.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Nash | first = Gerald D. | title = A Veritable Revolution: The Global Economic Significance of the California Gold Rush | journal = California History | date = 1998 | volume = 77 | issue = 4 | pages = 276–292 | doi = 10.2307/25462518 | jstor = 25462518 | url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/25462518}}</ref> One of these political institutions was statehood; the need for new laws in a sparsely-governed land led to the state's rapid entry into the Union in 1850.<ref>{{cite book | last = McPherson | first = James M. | title = Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era | year = 1988 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford | isbn = 978-0-19-503863-7}}</ref>

The gold rush in 1849 also stimulated worldwide interest in prospecting for gold, leading to further rushes in Australia, South Africa, Wales and Scotland. Successive gold rushes occurred in western North America: [[Fraser Canyon]], the [[Cariboo]] district and other parts of British Columbia, in [[Nevada]], in the [[Rocky Mountains]] in [[Colorado]], [[Idaho]], [[Montana]], eastern [[Oregon]], and western [[New Mexico Territory]] and along the lower [[Colorado River]]. There was a gold rush in Nova Scotia (1861–1876) which produced nearly 210,000 ounces of gold.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gold Rushes: The First Gold Rush |url=http://novascotiagold.ca/theme/exploitation_de_lor-mining/ruee_vers_lor_un-gold_rush_one-eng.php/ |website=Art Gallery of Nova Scotia |access-date=30 January 2022 |archive-date=30 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130232226/http://novascotiagold.ca/theme/exploitation_de_lor-mining/ruee_vers_lor_un-gold_rush_one-eng.php/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Resurrection Creek]], near [[Hope, Alaska]] was the site of Alaska's first gold rush in the mid–1890s.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Halloran|first1=Jim|title=Alaska's Hope-Sunrise Mining District|journal=Prospecting and Mining Journal|date=September 2010|volume=80|issue=1|url=http://www.icmj.com/article.php?id=901|access-date=28 November 2016}}</ref> Other notable Alaska Gold Rushes were [[Nome Gold Rush|Nome]], [[Fairbanks]], and the [[Fortymile River]].

[[Image:Miners climb Chilkoot.jpg|thumb|Miners and prospectors ascend the [[Chilkoot Trail]] during the Klondike Gold Rush.]]

One of the last "great gold rushes" was the [[Klondike Gold Rush]] in the [[Yukon Territory]] (1896–99). This gold rush is featured in the novels of [[Jack London]], and [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s film ''[[The Gold Rush]]''. [[Robert William Service]] depicted in his poetries the Gold Rush, especially in the book ''[[The Trail of '98]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://robertwservice.blogspot.com/p/biographie.html|title = Biographie}}</ref> The main goldfield was along the south flank of the [[Klondike River]] near its confluence with the [[Yukon River]] near what was to become [[Dawson City]] in Yukon Territory, but it also helped open up the relatively new US possession of [[Alaska]] to exploration and settlement, and promoted the discovery of other gold finds.

The most successful of the North American gold rushes was the [[Porcupine Gold Rush]] in [[Timmins, Ontario]] area. This gold rush was unique compared to others by the method of extraction of the gold. Placer mining techniques were not able to be used to access the gold in the area due to it being embedded into the [[Canadian Shield]], so larger mining operations involving significantly more expensive equipment was required. While this gold rush peaked in the 1940s and 1950s, it is still active today with over 200 million<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/industry-news/mining/the-gold-exploration-surge-continues-in-timmins-5723008 | title=The gold exploration surge continues in Timmins | date=22 August 2022 }}</ref> ounces of gold having been produced from the region. The gold deposits in this area are identified as one of the largest in the world.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Turner |first1=Bob |title=Timmins: Canada's greatest goldfields! |url=https://files.ontario.ca/ndmnrf-geotours-3/ndmnrf-geotours-timmins-en-2021-12-13.pdf |work=Natural Resources Canada and Ontario Geological Survey 2015 |publication-date=2015 |publisher=GeoTours Northern Ontario series |last2=Quat |first2=Marianne |last3=Debicki |first3=Ruth |last4=Thurston |first4=Phil}}</ref>