Gold rushes were many. I once had a map of all North American gold rushes. There was even one very early one the east shore of James Bay which has some mountain rivers. Ones I know about are, 1. CDN: Yukon-Chilkoot, Fraser River, Kootenay-Big Bend, Atlin, Lower Columbia, Barkerville-Quesnel (Cariboo), Saskatchewan River (Alberta), Drummondville (Quebec), Nova Scotia, James Bay, Sudbury- Vermillion River (Ontario). 2. US: Alaska, Yukon-Skagway (same as CDN), Michigan-Flint, North Carolina, California, Columbia River, Dakota, Georgia, Washington State.
Areas I am less sure about the history of are Colorado, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon, Virginia, Wisconsin, and N. Dakota. They have a mining history to be sure, but to what extent they had rushes I am not up on.
Hard rock rushes in Canada are Kenora, Nova Scotia, Val d'Or, Noranda (copper), Timmins (gold), Red Lake, Kirkland Lake, Madoc, Shiningtree-Cobalt (gold-silver), Cobalt (silver), Sudbury (nickel), Timmins (copper 1964), Bralorne-Highland Valley (copper), Premiere (BC gold), Kootenay (silver), Queen Charlottes (gold), Elliot Lake (uranium), Manitoba-Du Bonnet (gold) Man-Snow Lake (gold), New Brunswick-Heath Steel. (copper). I probably missed a few. Some areas have had multiple rushes. 1980 on was basically a gold rush all over Canada and Nevada-Colorado.
US hard rock rushes are numerous. Telluride, Motherlode, Washington, Superstition Mts. They have had a lot of lost mine tracing crap which is very unproductive of time.
One of the largest largest mining rushes of all time in money expended and people involved was the Canadian diamond rush into the NWT after 1992. I tried to get money to get in there but it was fruitless. Too many experts knew I did not have a chance. 100,000 people spent about 6 billion dollars. If you missed it, look up the story of Diamet minerals, and the Diavik. I know the discoverors. Interesting story. Canada is becoming one of the world's great diamond producers and will probably take over from Russia as world's production leader.
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