gold rush


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Synonyms for gold rush

a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field

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Gold Rush is focused on identifying economic gold mineralization.
Doha Bank hosted a mega raffle draw in February and announced 104 lucky winners of its 'Gold Rush Cards Campaign.' Held for its debit and credit cardholders with a total prize of 7kg of gold, the three-month campaign came to a close on January 31.
Ramil Villagracia, T'boli chief, reported the latest incident was the third since 2017 wherein at least four small-scale miners have died in the gold rush area due to asphyxia while extracting gold ores from abandoned mining tunnels in Kematu mining area.
Charlie Chaplin had described The Gold Rush as"the picture I want to be most remembered by''.
Critique: Impressively informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, "The Great Green Gold Rush" is exceptionally well organized and presented.
The helpful appendices include glossaries of Gold Rush terms and of notable Klondike places, an essay on how prospectors made and filed claims, and a timeline of London's life, followed by a bibliography and index.
It was also set to exceed the gold rush of 1985 when the pound plummeted, causing the price of the precious metal to soar.
OPERATION GOLD RUSH WITH DAN SNOW BBC2, 9pm In the 19th century, tens of thousands of men and woman undertook the dangerous journey to the Klondike, a remote region on the edge of the Canadian arctic, in search of gold.
A revealing and never-before-published personal memoir of day-to-day life at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush, "Gold Rush in the Klondike: A Woman's Journey in 1898-1899" is Knowles's personal story of her year in the Yukon territory.
The first gold rush occurred between 1892 and 1901 and the second after World War I.
The Rothschilds and the Gold Rush: Benjamin Davidson and Heinrich Schliemann in California 1851-52
Malabar Gold & Diamonds' festive campaign, 'The Great Gold Rush' enters its final week.
The arrival of the American prospectors in Benguet over 100 years ago marked the first gold rush in Itogon.