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After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...
The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...
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