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a hispanic minning meathod which used mercury to extract silver from ore
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First promising minning discoveries after the Caifornia gold rush, took place in Pikes Peak, Colorado
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thousands of people flocked to Colorado
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More successful minning operations began taking place in the present day Carson River Valley
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William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska
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By this point, very few lone miners were minning, it was mainly companies and coorperations moving in and doing large scale minning operation
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More and more different field machines were being made to quicken the process of minning as a company
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Prospecters discovered gold in Klondic district of Columbia
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Miners in the Yukon had extracted over 1 million dollars worth of gold
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More discoverises in the Yukon brought more and more miners north in search of a fortune