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A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold.

Gold rushes became a feature of 19^th-century culture. Factors that led thousands at a time to abandon daily Industrial Revolution drudgery and travel to gold fields ( diggings ) included

• relative improvements in transport networks;
• improvements in the means of communication that supported rumour-distribution chains,
• some social discontent, and
• an international gold-based monetary system.

Anecdotally, a few miners made fortunes, several suppliers (such as Levi Strauss) and traders made good money, and numerous unfortunates endured hardship and privation in exotic frontiers of civilization for little ultimate reward.

Demographically, several gold rushes shook up the patterns of settlement, resulting in the opening up of previously sparsely-settled areas and a Cantonese diaspora around the Pacific Rim. Gold-rush culture, often reflected in popular song, tended to promote self-images of robust masculinity.

These areas included

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• Australia ( 1851), the Victorian gold rush;
• Northern Nevada from the 1850s;
• Fraser Canyon to Cariboo (including Barkerville) of British Columbia in 1858- 1860;
• Otago, New Zealand after 1861, the Central Otago goldrush;
• the Black Hills and other areas in Montana after 1863;
• Transvaal, South Africa ( 1886), the resulting influx of miners becoming one of the triggers for the Boer War
• the Klondike in Yukon, Canada ( 1896), the Klondike Gold Rush.
• Alaska ( 1898)