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this is a pretty common theme in gold rushes. In California, Johann Suter fled from Switzerland because of a warrant for his arrest, abandoned his wife and children, moved across the world, and started a massive colony called Nueva Helvetia that spanned most of Northern California. He became one of the richest men in the world at the time (from agriculture, not from gold), then discovered gold and tried to keep it a secret. One of his workers let it slip and then thousands of people came to California because of it, overtaking just about everything he had built up. He died penniless.

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>want to buy a claim
>don't know how to mine

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neither did the gold miners in the 1800s. just capture a few natives and you'll figure it out eventually

I grew up in a gold rush part of Oregon. We went to a museum about it once.

Based
>mfw I went to Sutter's Fort on a field trip as a kid

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Mostly silver, our coins were the first global currency.

Oaxaca?

We don't need no damn gold. We have wholesome coal and iron that fueled this nation. We forged the steel that made America great. We brought the boom of black gold to America. And we still provide with the natural gas underneath our land.

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What state is this?
Seriously can someone help me out?

It's Pennsylvania, you tard.

lets play hangman
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Tierra del Fuego here

What are your goals? Permitting is miserable for mining so it's not really something you can do yourself. The real tactic is to buy a claim and prospect it and then sell it for more to someone who might want to drill it. Prospecting is pretty fun too.
t. Exploration geologist

I don't know, I have money but not a job so I was looking at things I could do myself and considered gold mining, but combination of
>no experience
>only prospector I've met made Jow Forums seem normal
>bears
>land title stuff in bc
>no sure payout
>expensive machinery

did you go to UofA? do you work for a big company or a junior?

My region got rich cultivating oranges a century ago.

We had a gold rush here in Florida but it turned out to be lies and the Spanish got lured into traps by them and had their asses kicked by giant Indians living here but then the Indians all died of small pox and the Spanish came back with more guys to ghost cities with no gold in them.

Dude should’ve hired armed guards and O.K corralled those damn squaters.

>giant Indians
Wat?

I work for a junior gold company and I'm based out of Vancouver. Im a junior geologist and mostly logging core but slowly transitioning to modeling. prospectors are all a little insane it comes with the desire to spend thousands on a claim and walking endlessly for days looking for rocks with sulfides that may or may not be there which may or may not have precious metals. You could do a really small scale operation where you soil sample or stream sample (take Dirt and putting it in bags and then get it fire assayed for gold or arenic) in hopes of finding something that's runs really high so you could sell it to a junior or major. It's gonna be expensive though. Each fire assay is hundreds of dollars. Honestly I'd recommend you just go hiking and gold panning instead of spending thousands.

thanks for the answer
sometimes I want to get into investing in the little junior mining companies, I got a inside tip about one and then it had a 50% gain a few weeks later
can you legally take samples from land you haven't claimed?
ended up buying a wood lot instead, going to try
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We had a whole bunch of gold rushes, pity all it did was incentivise a bunch of Chinese peasants to move here.

You are free to prospect on unclaimed unleased land though people may claim land if they notice activity on it. I missled you on how much assay cost. For the kind of work my company does (Fire assay and icp-ms) is expensive but cheap assay do exist.
You can also stake claims very cheaply with a prospectors license but if you don't know what you're looking for interms of minerals this might be really difficult it would probably be a fun summer though if you learned some basic geology and simply go down/upplunge of a successful target. Prospectors are always the ones who find the deposits first btw not geologists in suits in downtown Vancouver.

>le epic hat
cringe

People used to pass through here to get to California. So kinda counts.

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