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The California gold rush was a major turning point in American history. Among other things, it laid the foundations for San Francisco, and brought in a whole lot of new immigrants. It changed the fortunes of the people; the State of California, and the United States was never the same again.
The California gold rush began when James Marshall, a foreman in a lumber mill, found a gold nugget in Sutter’s Mill on January 24th 1848. The plans for a large agricultural development by his boss John Sutter were suddenly overturned when the news of the gold hit the headlines in March that year. People traveled from all over the country to California and that was the beginning of the California gold rush.
The prospectors and fortune hunters arrived in covered wagons and on boats, facing untold hardships on the way. They were all hoping to make their fortunes in the California gold rush. The early waves of prospectors were referred to as “forty-niners.” They camped wherever they could, as the frenzied gold hunt began. San Francisco changed from a sleepy hamlet with a population of one thousand, to a bustling town of twenty-five thousand by 1850.
People, who came to take advantage of the find, and become a part of the California gold rush, came from all over America. Not just that, as the news spread all over the world, people landed here from Latin America, England, Europe, Australia, and Asia as well. In all, about three hundred thousand people came to California from all over the world. Not every one was lucky; some made a fortune, others lost what they had found, and the rest eventually started a new life in the area.
Initially, the gold seekers retrieved the gold by simple methods like panning the waters of streams and rivers beds. Later, gold was mined by methods that were subsequently adopted all over the world. The peak years of the California gold rush lasted till 1855, when it was declared to be over. Gold worth billions of dollars in today’s value was recovered during the Gold Rush.
The Legend Of The California Gold Rush Lives On
The California Gold Rush has never been quite forgotten. It was the inspiration for numerous books, movies, and even music. There were several people who were immortalized for the role they played in the gold rush. The term forty-niners lived on for over a hundred years. Even though mining has ended, the prospecting for gold nuggets still continues in northern California. In fact, the renewed interest in gold nuggets has almost started a minor California Gold Rush once again!
Filed under Commodities by on Jan 31st, 2012.
Have you ever wanted to go panning for gold but thought it was an adventure lost in time? Do you look wistfully at the pictures of old forty-niners standing in a stream bed with gold pan in hand and wish that could be you? Have you always wanted to follow in the paths of those forty-niners but never thought it would be possible? Well, today you too can have the panning for gold adventure of a lifetime.
Panning for Gold In Many Places
The first thing you need to decide is where it is that you want to go panning for gold first. The reason for this is that there are a variety of places to choose from like across the northern part of California, into Oregon, and possibility even Alaska. One possibility is http://www.oregongoldtrip.com/ where you can visit scenic Southwest Oregon State and keep what you mine. On this trip you will eat home cooked meals and actually stay in a cabin built for miners in a time gone by.
You can also go to California simply by logging onto http://www.goldfun.com/Panning_Trips/panning_trips.html and following Joshua Vick’s guidelines. This trip will take you to Woods Creek in the heart of gold rush country where you can pan for gold to your hearts content. Still another California adventure is http://www.strikeitrichadventures.com/ where you can receive lessons on how to pan for gold as well as take a guided tour into an old mine providing there are six people who wish to do so.
There are lots of ways you can follow your dream to pan for gold. However, if an adventure is not enough and you wish to add some competition to your future plans, there is a number of open panning for gold championships that you can watch and perhaps someday join. While many are held in California and other gold rush areas, you can also travel as far as Africa to try your hand at panning for gold in competition.
While a competition cannot replace having lived in the days of the gold rush anymore than an adventure can provide a true feeling for what it was like then, these possibilities can offer you and your family an exciting new hobby and means to get outdoors and meet new people. You will quickly find that panning for gold is not easy—it is an art. And, like all art forms requires practice and patience to master.
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In the past, students wanting to learn about the gold rush had to spend hours at the library pouring over books and hoping to develop an understanding of what it must have been like. Today, children can experience this time in history in ways that have never before been available to them. By simply doing an online search for gold rush museums, any student can quickly find themselves taken virtual tours of history and learning about it in an interactive way and not trying to imagine
it from books.
Alaska
One such online resource is http://www.library.state.ak.us/goldrush/. Here, students of all ages or anyone who is interested can peruse maps, read stories, examine a miner’s life and even meander through what they call the Alaska Gold Lode. This is a section of the website devoted to photos and other images from the Alaskan gold rush. As an added bonus, this library offers information for teachers to help them teach this historical event in a way that all students can understand.
California
The website http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/ is another resource on any student’s path to gold rush understanding. In 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill, which kicked off the great California gold rush and this, along with a veritable fountain of other vital information is just a few mouse-clicks away. Like the Alaskan state library webpage, this site offers curriculum materials, images, stories and even information on the rush for silver and the effects of this push on Native Americans in the area.
The Klondike
Historical gold rush information can also be found on the Internet at http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/exhibits/klondike/. This site specializes in information from the Klondike gold rush that includes stories, photos, art, and many other ways that a student can begin to understand the nuances of being a miner in this area at that time. When the promise of gold drew men to the area, they often arrived without prior understanding of the bitter cold. This meant they were often horribly underequipped, but suffering gold fever so badly they wouldn’t leave.
Where else can a student learn of these events so completely as when they travel through the Internet to some of the most important gold rush locations? The Klondike, California and Alaskan gold rushes were some of the most important events in mining history. There is no longer any good reason why any student should have to learn these events in the back room of some stuffy library when they are easily accessible online with a variety of options for students to use in order to learn as much as they can about the gold rush.
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The term gold rush refers to earlier times in history, when a large vein of gold was discovered and people rushed to the area expecting to get rich quickly. One of the more famous historical gold rushes occurred in 1848 in California.
The Discovery Of Gold
John Sutter was an early settler in California who despite his great debt was considered one of the wealthiest men in the area. He sent off his men to build a sawmill and when the mill was almost completed, James Marshall, one of the workers, spotted a large piece of gold in the water. For reasons of their own, both Sutter and Marshall wanted to keep the gold a secret because they knew it would bring outsiders to the area.
Stories spread anyway and Sam Brannan figured out if people rushed in to get the gold that, he could make a profit from the influx of people. One day, Brennan rushed through the San Francisco area yelling about the gold that had been found after he had bought up all the tools in the area that are useful in prospecting for gold. Brennan made an estimated thirty-six thousand dollars because of his promotional run.
After President James Polk made a comment about the amount of gold in the area, people began to abandon their lives to rush out to California. By 1949, gold fever and the gold rush had struck and that immense rush out to California caused the participants to be called "forty-niners".
Forty-Niners Head West
Easterners could travel out west by taking a six months long journey by ship around South America or by walking out to California. The sea route was eventually shortened by a taking a trip through Panama although the land travels through the rainforest was arduous.
Many of the travelers were stranded in Panama for long periods waiting for a ship to California. People from the mid-States walked west to California. Their route was also treacherous especially when the travellers ran out of water.
The Place Gets Crowded With Panners
With all the gold panners who kept coming in, there came to be a lack of goods and supplies for everyone in the gold rush area. Even though many people had lots of money, just paying for food, water and other things necessary to life became very expensive. Rough camps were a common site in the area. Many women came out to California because women were scarce in the area and they could earn good money for their needed domestic skills. There were enough success stories to keep people interested in panning for gold in California.
The Gold Runs Out
By mid-1949, the gold ran out yet still travellers came to the area expecting to make their fortune.
Frustration set in and many of the forty-niners were getting desperate. There were fewer success stories yet enough so some people just would not give up on their dreams of striking it rich. Some of the forty-niners never made it back home despite their promises of returning home rich someday.
The gold rush of California is a striking example of what people are willing to do in order to strike it rich. The broken dreams and getting rich experiences are both extreme experiences that resulted from the gold rushes.
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The California gold rush attracted a breed of man known as the forty-niners. These men lived to make their fortunes in the gold mines that surrounded San Francisco and Sacramento. Today, gold prospecting still occurs in California and other areas that may still contain the “mother lode,” but there are not nearly as many people interesting in spending long grueling days with a pick, pan or shovel.
Gold Prospecting In The Gold Rush
In the days of the rush, gold prospecting meant finding and staking your claim in an area. Once you found your stream or rock bed, then it was necessary to remain in that spot or risk losing it.
Upwards of three hundred thousand people flocked to California during the days of that gold rush and another one hundred thousand went to Alaska.
These numbers, however, may well be modest estimations, which implies that once a gold prospector staked his claim, he would risk losing it to another should he leave. This meant that no matter what the weather or his lack of equipment, he had to remain at his stake. For the men who traveled up to the Klondike gold rush, this often meant weathering harsh winters without adequate blankets to stay warm.
Gold Prospecting Today
Unlike in the days of the gold rush, gold prospecting today is much less worrisome. The number of people who actually take pan, pick and shovel out into the great outdoors to hunt for elusive gold are few. Today, there are few laws restricting a gold prospector from panning in a stream providing, of course, he is not doing so on private property. However, there are laws governing the use of a pick and shovel, particularly if the mining is done on government or publicly owned lands.
Those who are seriously seeking to find their fortune rarely do gold prospecting today. Instead, it is often a hobby for people who enjoy being outside searching for something beautiful and rare. While the motives for gold prospecting have changed moderately, the equipment still looks amazingly similar to that used more than 100 years ago.
All the gold prospector needs is his pick, shovel and pan to begin searching for that which set California on the path to being one of the most populated states in America—gold. Today, the same lure draws the hobbyist and outdoorsmen alike. With pan in hand, they search streams and little rocky ledges for that telltale glitter that hints at a better life, or perhaps a wonderful charm to hang on a pendant.
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The interest in gold nuggets is a recent occurrence. Many people have of late made prospecting for gold nuggets a profitable hobby. Many others collect gold nuggets and are willing to pay a premium price for a good-sized specimen. This is because less than two percent of the earth’s gold is found in the form of nuggets. Furthermore, each nugget is quite unique, and it is rare to find two identical ones.
The rivers of California, some places in Alaska, and Australia, are the main areas that these nuggets are found and where people go prospecting with metal detectors. The nuggets are usually about 92% to 99.6% pure gold. Prospecting for gold is not that easy. It calls for research, the right equipment, determination, patience, and above all, a little luck.
During the days of the gold rush, even if prospectors found nuggets, they were melted down. They were then weighed and sold. Even when the price of gold shot up, people who possessed gold nuggets melted them down to improve their purity and sold them by weight.
Until 1990, all gold nuggets that had been found have been melted down. Now prospecting for and collecting gold nuggets is not only a hobby, but also a form of investment, because the value of these nuggets is much more in the market than their weights in gold. This is because gold nuggets are considered to be gemstones and are more rare than gold dust. Most of the bullion that is traded in the market is made into coins from melted gold dust.
The Origin Of Gold Nuggets
These nuggets now primarily come from Western Australia, northern California, and Gilmore Creek in Alaska. They are classified as large, medium, or small according to their weights. Large are up to one troy ounce in weight, and medium are from five grams to one-half a troy ounce. A nugget weighing more than an ounce is quite rare. The largest one found however is a whopping 27.2 kilograms in weight and forty-six centimeters long. It is known as the Hand of Faith and is displayed at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas.
Gold nuggets are believed to be formed by the precipitation of gold by chemical solutions that rise from deep and diffused gold deposits in the earth to the surface. All the gold on the surface of the earth has probably been found. A lot of what lies just below the surface is also out. That leaves a very small precious store of gold nuggets still in Mother Earth’s possession.
Filed under Commodities by on Dec 27th, 2011.
Gold mining is a career option that not everybody would like to pursue even though it could take you to places far and wide including to the north of Canada as well as the beautiful state of Alaska. Essentially, it means having to dig a whole lot of gravel and then transporting it till it reaches a huge sieving machine that is known as a Trommel in which the material is washed as well as graded. Most of the material that comes out is nothing but pieces of big rocks that are usually not of much use and which are taken out and thrown away.
Is There Any Place That Is Most Suitable?
Nevertheless, there is bound to be some amount of material that has gold in it which is why in gold mining nothing is ever taken for granted, and the material left is then sent down into a chute and further into what is a device called a sluice box in which particles of gold are collected. But, there is still a very important question that needs to be answered pertaining to gold mining and that is how to find the right place to mine for gold. The answer is that there is no way of knowing where gold mining ought to take place, and it is thus just a matter of panning samples and then determining how much gold is concentrated in them.
Gold mining is basically a daytime operation which means that with nightfall, the trucks are made to stop and everyone goes home and the Trommel too does not do any more work though a boss man will pick his way through the sluice box and extract any gold nuggets that may be present within. That is all that there is to gold mining and
the whole process is repeated once more the following morning.
Thus, once the process begins, gold mining continues in the same vein day in and day out for the entire season with some days being productive while others are not, and the work is generally repetitive as well as not much fun at all. When winter comes around, the gold mining work stops and hopefully whatever gold mining took place during the summer months will have resulted in enough gold being found so that the operations will have yielded positive results.
Another great place for gold mining is without a doubt Alaska that is well known for its beauty, and as everyone knows, it attracted many people to mine for gold during the 1800s and so many settlements got established during that time including Fairbanks, Juneau as well as Nome that are still there today. Thus, gold mining is Alaska is a lot of fun and the chances of striking gold are also pretty good as well.
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Most adults have read stories of panning for gold, when they were children. The modern histories of a number of countries include wondrous stories of people striking it rich in magical streams, using nothing but pans and water to establish gold mines of considerable substance. The facts are that gold reserves are generally more substantial in rock formations than in silt and gravel, and that panning is far from an efficient process in industrial terms. Modern gold mines involve substantial risks, and most corporate entities need to raise capital in any number of ways to make best use of breakthroughs in their prospecting activities.
The enduring value of gold is not just a fact, but an issue of developing shortages as well. Globalization and an unbroken economic boom across the world have accelerated the demand for the yellow metal by leaps and bounds. It is significant that both India and China, both of which have most combined impact on world economic trends, are infused with cultural trends that place unusually high emphases on gold as the quintessential measure of wealth. Other countries, though they may not experience the same degrees of personal gold holdings, also seek to build inventories of the metal to support their currency values.
Industrial Concerns Of Gold Mines
The rapid demand expansion for the metal cannot be matched in short time frames by new or expanded gold mines. Prospecting never has certain outcomes, and some discoveries may not be workable on technical or financial grounds. Gold mines cannot be certain of sustained success, and must effectively deal with mounting concerns for safety and ecology.
The feasibility of gold mines depends not just on the quantities which may be estimated to hide within rocks, but the presence of other metals, not all of which may be in demand. These factors affect the selection of extraction methods, and hence impact investment and cost projections. There is also a significant time dimension to developing new gold mines, and more than a decade may pass before a new discovery achieves financial self-sufficiency.
Any underground operation, or one that involves the breakdown of large rock formations, is beset with risks. Gold mines, unless diligently managed, may also cause pollution from which relevant areas may never recover. There are a number of important implications for the occupational health of people who work in gold mines. Operating standards in these respects have improved enormously over the years, though not all countries are equally careful in keeping up with the times. The operation of gold mines in countries with good governance is not on a level playing field with others from the third world. However, the modern trend is clearly towards sustainability, so gold mines that do not operate safely, are bound to face closures at some stages.
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The coming of the internet has opened up a whole new world in which information that was previously inaccessible is now freely available for you to download and compile making it a wonderful resource from which even large profits can be made. So, if you know where to look, you can find a wealth of information and many lesser known secrets that are only known to people that can best be described as being today’s gold miners can be yours as well.
For, looking for information today is much like what a gold miner did during the Gold Rush and before.
A New Type Of Gold
Of course, mining the Internet is not exactly like what a gold miner did when he was searching quarries or dredging rivers looking for gold. This is a totally different type of gold which can best be described as tomorrows and yesterday’s gold and you are a latter day gold miner who could be labeled as the gold miner of the millennium.
As gold miner mining information gold rather than gold nuggets, you need to use tools that are not like the pick axes of yore and which is nothing more than a mouse with the gold pan being your hard disk drive. You use the computer to dredge for gold and the internet connection is what can only be called your claim. When gold miners struck gold in the good old days, they had to drive a wedge where the gold had been struck and thus stake their claims. However, when you prospect for information gold today, you are staking a claim in a different way and that is by contracting with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to make an internet connection which will open up a huge amount of wealth in the form of Public Domain Information.
So, the information age as we may term this new millennium is the equivalent of the Gold Rush of the 1840s and you are a latter day gold miner who is rushing to find more information and are a part of millions of likeminded people all searching for the new gold which is readily available for any gold miner of today to pan for. This new gold fever is catching on and millions are smitten by it and the more you, as a modern day gold miner seek and find information, the greater is your need for more information, which can overwhelm you so much so that it can turn into a magnificent obsession before you even know what has struck you.
So, if you have not yet become a modern gold miner now is the time to hop on and look for the new gold in the new goldmines of the world.
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Gold is a commodity that has always been freely traded in gold bullion markets and people across the world have always happily been engaged in investing in gold in order to gain a number of benefits that they hope will ensure a safer financial situation for them in the foreseeable future. Pretty much every massive town in the world will boast of an address relating to gold bars markets. The keenness to trade in gold is contagious and even though you have tiny quantities of money to spare you would find you being drawn to purchasing some quantity of gold bars for your private necessities.
Even the UK found it tough to ignore the necessity to have a gold market where they could unreservedly trade in gold in their colonies. One such gold bullion market that has remained a great place to trade in gold bullion is the one the British began during the days when they were ruling India and which was located and still exists in the financial capital of India – Mumbai.
This gold bullion market that is known as Zaveri Bazaar is every bit as active as other major gold bullion markets including that of London. Indians naturally are one of the major purchasers of gold and so Zaveri Bazaar is a great traveller attraction for the Indian female that likes to buy gold for decorative purposes essentially and for investing purposes also.
It is also the dominant gold bullion market of India and the level of trade enacted here is unmatched in that country. From its beginning in 1860 when the British opened it till the present Zaveri Bazaar has been a bustling gold bullion market in which traders from within India and from neighboring countries trade in gold.
The London gold bullion market from an alternative perspective is another gigantic demonstration showing how gold is traded in large amounts. The operations of this gold market are overseen by UK Central Bank and the men and women that trade here include establishment banks as well as dealers in bullion as too gold refiners.
Whenever considerable amounts of gold are discovered in a place it leads to the opening of a gold mine in that location. Then follows the employment of different processes as well as systems that help in the removal of the gold from its source and then this gold which has been separated from the soil in which it was discovered will then need to be sent for refining.
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If you’re looking to make money from an investment, gold bullion coins are certainly likely to be a good place to start given their strength in the investment markets and speaking to those who are in the know about the precious metal will stand you in good stead when it comes to making as much profit as possible.
Professional advice will definitely go a long way to making sure that any investor achieves the sorts of returns that they are looking for when it comes to their gold bullion coins.
Gold bullion coins, regardless of which country they are minted in, will be one of the most likely commodities when it comes to providing a good return on investment. Investing in gold bullion products is becoming increasingly popular across the UK and most investors will head online in their search for a supplying of good quality gold bullion coins because this is likely to yield the most choice and value for money.
As with most forms of investment, such as property or shares, there is much choice about what to invest in and this is no different with gold bullion coins, with a number of different varieties available to pick from. Gold bullion investment is not only highly financially valuable but also something that is extremely rewarding, as you realise that your holdings can provide an excellent return on investment in the long term.
As the value of gold bullion continues to be highly impressive in the markets, it is little wonder that gold bullion coins are such a popular choice amongst investors of all shapes and sizes. Needless to say, one of the primary considerations for anyone thinking of gold bullion investment is finding a good supplier of the precious metal and one that will be able to offer relevant and timely advice that will help to maximise profit making potential.
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eFoods Direct, a retail food storage company known across the country for its gourmet storable food, announced last week that the company has officially launched a sister company, eFoods Global, utilizing network-marketing as its method of distribution.
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Earlier this year, Lindsey Williams told Alex Jones the globalists would devalue the dollar and jack up the price of oil.
Both are now happening.
On Thursday, in response to the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it plans to monetize the debt and increase the money supply, economists and market strategists warned that the sickly U.S. dollar is now at risk of crashing and consumers will soon be hammered with higher prices.
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Gold prices continue to climb and may break the June 21st record high of $1,265.50.
Analysts have been following this record breaking rise in prices and the demand for physical gold is expected to remain strong as the yellow metal continues to
be a safe haven investment for long-term and short-term investors alike.
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Gold has long been recognized a precious element in our world. Kings and emperors have used gold as a symbol of their power and wealth. Money used to be made from gold and gold bars were used to finance armies and battles. These days, gold bars are used as an investment and are often traded in the stock market.
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Gold futures surged toward record highs Thursday as the stock market and the U.S. economy continued to flounder, leaving investors seeking a safe haven in hard assets.
Gold for August delivery rose $14.40, or 1.2%, to $1,245 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Recreational gold panning can be accomplished wherever there is a gold vein that can be easily accessed. When a person prospects for gold, it is called gold panning. Gold panning gets it name from the pan that is used to find the gold.
Gold panning can be done on a recreational basis or a person could be more serious about their efforts at gold prospecting. For the recreational gold panner, it is possible to find and sell natural nuggets and panning concentrates from your gold panning efforts.
It Is All In The Swirl
Simple panning instructions are to go to a known gold bearing stream and scoop gravel from the bottom of the water so that your pan is about three quarters full. Then with a gentle side-to-side motion, swirl the contents so that the dirt and clay leaves the pan and you have a finer concentrate of sand and gravel left in the pan.
Swirl the pan just under the water so that the rest of the gravel will leave the pan and so that you are left with the heavier material at the bottom. There should be a few cups of material in your pan. Take the pan out of the water when all that is left in your pan is a black material. You can begin to check for gold in the pan and then you can wash it gently again in the swirling water. You can use a magnet to pull out any gold sediment and pieces.
The Prospecting Pan
The pan used for gold panning can be made from any material that is strong enough for the job including wood, steel, plastic and metal. The plastic pans are preferred because of their lightweight and immunity to rust and corrosion. Plastic can also be painted black so that gold specks can be seen against its surface. Plastic also lends itself well to being given texture as a method of holding the gold to the surface so it can be checked.
You can find maps for prospecting that will lead you to known gold veins that you can then pan. Many people enjoy gold panning whenever they find themselves outdoors in a suitable area. It is easy to turn fishing, hunting and camping trips into gold panning trips. You could even find a gold bearing stream in a local area that will mean you can take up this hobby without having to travel very far. There are many areas where major gold veins cross through.
Gold panning allows you to enjoy the great outdoors and feel like you could strike it rich at the same time. Many people love to pan for gold everywhere because there is gold in “them there hills”.
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From platinum coins. One important metal aside from gold is platinum. It is one of the most valuable metals in the world. platinum is known as the world's valuable metal because it is more expensive that silver or even gold.
Platinum is considered rare for there are around 550 million oz of silver produced each year and 85 million oz. of gold; while only about 7 million ounces of Pt are mined yearly.
Pt costs more than gold and silver for it is an even rarer metal. Platinum was first mentioned by Europeans by the Spanish Conquistadors. They were the first Europeans to find the precious metal when they mined for gold and silver in the New World. This precious metal was in used around late 1700s in Europe,
In 1828 the first platinum coins where coined in Russia, and the minting of Russian coin was stopped in 1844. Unlike gold and silver, Pt is not used widely, some countries minted this precious metal for collectors and not for daily use.
But, there where times when people used gold and silver as their form of payment but in 1933 almost all counties stopped using them as a form of payment. Pt money are minted as commemorative coin for a person who loves to collect money.
Here are the three main factors you should know to determine the value of collector's coin.
* Rarity, there are lots of commemorative coins that are produce out there with different quantities. So the rarer your coin is the more expensive it becomes. And the coinage that are produced with more quantities will have a lesser value compared to coins that are produce with a limited amount.
* Condition, it is also important for you to check the condition of your platinum coin. Checking and knowing that your coin is in good condition will help you know how much the coinage value is. For it that coin is one of the rare ones and it is in good condition then it will cost more than what you might think. On the other hand if your coin is not in a good state then there's a possibility that its value will be less.
* Age, is important for this is one of the basis in knowing the value of your coin. They will see how ancient your coin is the older your coin the higher it value will be. So if your coin is rare and in good condition plus it's an antique for it was minted way, way back then be assure that your coin will have a high value.
* Content of platinum. This is actually the most important factor in determ
ining a money value. Put simply the more platinum a coin contains the more valuable it will be.
If you are not sure of your coins value then you could ask some friends or an expert and let your coin be check to see how much its value is.
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About a hundred years ago, the words gold mine would conjure up images of untold wealth. Today, those words often imply hard work or places to visit when interested in historical American landmarks. While some gold mines are still operational and yielding that beautiful yellow metal that nearly everyone loves, many have given all they will and have been shut down or abandoned. In some cases, though, families interested in visiting these kinds of historical places can do so.
Dahlonega, Georgia
One must see gold mine is located in Dahlonega, Georgia, and offers guided tours of the mine as well as other amenities for the adventurer at heart. Dahlonega was one of the first places where the gold rush of the nineteenth century began, and the caretakers have taken steps to ensure that visitors understand what it was like there at that time. Also, as part of the gold mine adventure package, visitors are taught how to pan for gold, grub gems and given a thorough lesson on geology and the practice of mining. This mine welcomes schools and other large groups for educational tours. Visit http://www.consolidatedgoldmine.com/ for more information.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
If you are worried about having enough to interest everyone in your party, then take a look at the offerings in Cripple Creek, http://www.cripplecreekpackages.com. Not only is there a gold mine tour that will satisfy the curiosity of any wannabe gold miner, but this gold mine also offers a lot of additional amenities. Some of these include hiking, antique shopping, mountain biking, night life, luxury packages, family packages, and even romantic getaway packages. Whatever you desire in the way of a mining town experience may be found in Cripple Creek.
Sutter’s Creek, California
Gold! The cry that set off the gold rush in 1848 started at Sutter’s Mill. Today, you and your loved ones or friends can trace the steps of the forty-niners into the gold mine that helped to change the history of California forever, Sutter’s Creek, http://www.caverntours.com/sgmt.html. This mine offers a historical look at mining, as well as guided tours and rides into one of the most historic gold mines in American history.
So, if you have always dreamed of walking the same paths as the gold rush miners, take a look at these adventure packages, or let your dreams guide you and search for gold mine adventures in the places you have always wanted to see. Most of the mines that are open to the public offer or will help you and your party find lodging and other things to do while you visit this little piece of American history. Do not wait any longer, call or email today to start making your gold mine adventure dreams come true.
Filed under Commodities by on May 14th, 2010.
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