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Au
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Gold Reserve Act of 1934
Gold Reserve Act of 1934 Lawrence H. Officer The gold standard is a monetary standard that ties a unit of currency, or money, to a stated amount of gold. Under this system, both banks and the government stand ready to redeem their note and deposit liabilities in gold at the stipulated... Read more |
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Gold standard
GOLD STANDARD GOLD STANDARD. The gold standard is a monetary system in which gold is the standard or in which the unit of value—be it the dollar, the pound, franc, or some other unit in which prices and wages are customarily expressed and debts are usually contracted |
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East Coolgardie Goldfield
East Coolgardie Goldfield , Western Australia, SW Australia. It is the richest gold field in Australia. The chief mining center is the town of Kalgoorlie. Coolgardie, of little importance today, was the first gold-rush town in the area. Gold was discovered there in 1892.... Read more |
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Arthur Golding
Arthur Golding c.1536-c.1605, English translator. He translated many Latin classics, including Caesar's Gallic War and Ovid's Metamorphoses. A Calvinist, Golding tried to infuse the Metamorphoses with a stern moral tone. He also translated noted French works.... Read more |
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Klondike Gold Rush 1896-1899
The Klondike Gold Rush Sources Finding Gold.In the summer of 1897 Americans caught gold fever. Nothing captured the American male’s search for manly adventure, rugged individualism, and money as the Klondike gold rush. In July the first tattered gold-laden... Read more |
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gold
gold metallic chemical element; symbol Au [Lat. aurum =shining dawn]; at. no. 79; at. wt. 196.9665; m.p. 1,064.43°C; b.p. 2,808°C; sp. gr. 19.32 at 20°C; valence +1 or +3. Gold is very ductile and is the most malleable metal; it can be beaten into extremely thin sheets of gold leaf.... Read more |
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones Singer Struck Gold With Read more |
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Pikes Peak
PIKES PEAK PIKES PEAK, standing 14,110 feet in the Rocky Mountains in El Paso County, Colorado, was first attempted in November 1806 by Lt. Zebulon M. Pike. Pike failed to summit because of heavy snow. Popular usage by trappers and others of the name "Pikes Peak" led to an official name. Pikes... Read more |
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Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis (Frederick Carlton Lewis), 1961-, American sprinter and jumper, b. Birmingham, Ala. A star in high school and at the Univ. of Houston, he became possibly the greatest track athlete of all time. After winning three gold medals at the World Championships in Helsinki in 1983, he went on at... Read more |
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Colorado
...Other major cities include Colorado Springs and Pueblo. It is...Plains. Major rivers are the Colorado, Rio Grande, Arkansas...1848). The discovery of gold and silver encouraged immigration and Colorado was made a territory in 1861... |
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Gold Rushes
Gold Rushes. The nineteenth century was the great era of North American gold rushes.Beginning in North Carolina in 1799, gold rushes were initially a southern...during gold rushes in Nevada and Colorado in the late 1850s; Montana, Idaho... |
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Cheyenne
...Northern Cheyenne remaining near the Platte River, and the Southern Cheyenne settling near the Arkansas River. The Colorado Gold Rush (1858) brought rapid white migration and the Cheyenne were restricted to a reservation. War broke out following... |
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Cody, William Frederick
...Frederick (1846–1917), American showman, better known as Buffalo Bill. Born on a farm in Iowa, he was at the Colorado gold-mines as a boy, and then became a Pony Express rider and a Civil War scout. He appeared between 1872 and 1883 in... |
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Central City Opera House
Central City Opera House (Colorado). This gold‐rush wonder in the mountains of Colorado (one of the highest theatre structures in the world) was built in 1876 to provide a place of entertainment for the thousands of miners (and artists) passing... |
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Thomson, James
...a tragic Arabian love- story, led to friendship with W. M. Rossetti. For part of 1872 Thomson was with a gold company in Colorado, and in 1873 in Spain as a war reporter; on his return he completed his best-known poem, ‘The City of... |
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gold, silver, and copper deposits
...from modern times, were simple gold-bearing quartz–pyrite veins...fractures in rocks. Examples of gold–quartz–pyrite vein deposits...Examples are Cripple Creek, Colorado; Goldfield, Nevada; and El...relatively recent times because the gold is present in tiny ... |
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Gilpin, William
...history as a soldier in the Indian wars and the Mexican War, and as first territorial governor of Colorado. He wrote two visionary works: The Central Gold Region (1860), later published as The Mission of the North American People (1873), in which... |
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Far West
...Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. The region varies from the...the Bear Flag Republic. The gold rush of the forty‐niners marks...and Joaquin Miller. Later gold rushes took place at Virginia...s fiction tells of Idaho and Colorado life; Vardis Fisher and ... |
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Indian Wars
...Beginning with the California gold rush in 1848, Indian warfare...small native groups vanished as gold seekers overran the Sierra...where other Sioux deplored gold seekers crossing their territory to...unrest on the roads connecting Colorado with the East ... |
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Fairplay
Fairplay, Colorado/USA Founded and named by gold miners as a reproof to their aggressively acquisitive neighbours. |
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Denver
Denver, Colorado/USA Founded in 1859 during the ‘Gold rush’ as two towns, Auraria and St Charles. The latter was renamed Denver City after James W. Denver (1817–92), governor of the territory in 1858. In 1860 Auraria and Denver City merged to form Denver. |
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Denver, James William
...a brigade in the march on Corinth (1862). When gold was discovered in a section of Kansas that is now Colorado (1858), Denver sent a party to the site. The town they named for him is now the capital of Colorado. |
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ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI DONATES 72 OUNCES OF GOLD FOR "SHARE IN THE CARE COLORADO"...
...Creek and Victor Gold Mining Company...presented gold mined in Colorado to Governor John...Share in the Care Colorado is working to arrange...sheeting to which new gold leaf produced from...communities across Colorado at a ... |
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Pacific Rim Mining Acquires Cerro Colorado Gold Project in El Salvador
...interest in the Cerro Colorado gold project and maintain the...in El Salvador from Cerro Colorado S.A. de C.V. ("Cerro...portfolio of high-quality gold projects. The acquisition of the Cerro Colorado project is the latest in... |
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A world-class gold from the Colorado quartz mine.
...beautifully crystallized gold, the Colorado Quartz mine near Mariposa...that time has been the Colorado Quartz mine in west...Grimes a percentage of the gold as promised, Grimes...Grimes sold the mine to Colorado Gold Inc. ... |
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Colorado Gold Trail Invites Discovery.
...did so in search of a new and better life. Colorado's Gold Rush saw about 100,000 gold seekers (known...settled new and rugged territory (see also Colorado Gold Trail). In 2009, Colorado is celebrating 150 years of ... |
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Colorado's Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Carries State Tradition.
...Steve Raabe Jan. 20--Colorado's colorful gold-mining legacy lives...single company drove Colorado gold production to a...the world's largest gold producer. Through Cripple...AngloGold's dominance in Colorado. "The Cresson ... |
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COLORADO GOLD SHINES IN SLUMP METALS, MINE STOCKS TAKE THE LEAD AMONG STATE'S...
...Milstead ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Gold. Glad that you're bound...out on the only good news for Colorado stocks in the quarter. As dozens of companies shed value, Colorado's metals and mining stocks...Gold were two of the three top Colorado stocks ... |
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Colorado Gold Company Stocks Suffer Third Year of Losses.
...Tribune Business News Jan. 1--Colorado's gold sector shined bright in 2002...telecommunications and technology firms. Colorado's fledgling biotech industry...market values. Just a third of Colorado companies ended the year with gains... |
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In Colorado, gold is more than a part of the past.
...Byline: Wayne Heilman COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo...or Bust," all a gold miner needed was...underground how much gold is left in these...deposits in southwest Colorado. "But mining it...and a high enough gold price to ... |
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Colorado gold; it's easy to visit historic gold country just west of Denver.
...easy to visit historic gold country just west of...ramshackle mine camps . . . in Colorado's historic gold country...stretch of 1-70. Make Colorado's gold country the...riverbeds, most of the gold was in solid quartz ... |
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Sierra to Become a Gold Producer Through the Acquisition of Secotec's Cerro...
...purchase the producing Cerro Colorado gold mine, located in Sonora, Mexico.Cerro Colorado is a heap leach gold operation...the 3,128 hectare Cerro Colorado project subject to a 2...and mining equipment, gold extraction ponds ... |
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