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Prospectors find gold near Pikes Peak in late 1858.
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Thousnands of people flocked to Colorado in warly 1859 to try to make it rich.
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By mid summer most miners had left because they realized that many people had exaggerated the amout of gold.
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Hispanic miners introduced methods that include a mill that seperates gold from quartz, and the Patio Process, which used mercury to extract silver from ore.
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William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska for two cents per acre.
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Prospecters discovered gold in the Klondike district which borders Alaska. This is known as the Klondike Gold Rush. Yukon miners extracted gold worth one million dollars. This attracted more settlers.
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Mining camps became common. They were very crude and uncomfortable, consisting of mostly men. Competetion was very common which led to discrimination, that sometimes ended in violence.
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This technology was used to reach ore. The developed tool consisted of hydraulic mining, which shoots water at hight pressure, and hard-rock mining. This involves sinking deep shafts to obtain ore locked in the veins of rock
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Mining became a task of large companies becuase machines were needed to reach ore, and the average person could not afford these necessities.
