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Lust for Gold is a 1949 Western film about the mine based on Storm's book. [14] "Dutchman's Gold" was a chart hit in 1960 for Walter Brennan. [46] "When the Man Comes, Follow Him" episode of the CBS Radio series Escape aired on April 9, 1949. [47] "The Peralta Map" episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense aired on March 10, 1957. [48]
The 1963 novel MacKenna's Gold by Heck Allen is loosely based on the Adams legend. The novel was made into a film in 1969 with the title Mackenna's Gold. Numerous other books about, or based on, the diggings have been written. The legend was dramatized on a 1991 episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining . Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to more complex extraction processes such as pit mining and gold cyanidation. In the 20th and 21st centuries, most ...
The reported treasure and efforts to find it have been covered in books and on television, including: a September 1977 segment of 60 Minutes by Dan Rather, who also interviewed Ova Noss [9] the 1978 book 100 Tons of Gold by David Leon Chandler [10] the television show Unsolved Mysteries; originally on May 10, 1989, and an update on February 11 ...
King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel [ 1] by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels ...
Gold is a 1974 British thriller film starring Roger Moore and Susannah York and directed by Peter R. Hunt.It was based on the 1970 novel Gold Mine by Wilbur Smith.Moore plays Rodney "Rod" Slater, general manager of a South African gold mine, who is instructed by his boss Steyner (Bradford Dillman) to break through an underground dike into what he is told is a rich seam of gold.
The Meadows of Gold. Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems ( Arabic: مُرُوج ٱلذَّهَب وَمَعَادِن ٱلْجَوْهَر, Murūj aḏ-Ḏahab wa-Maʿādin al-Jawhar) is a 10th century history book by an Abbasid scholar al-Masudi. Written in Arabic and encompassing the period from the beginning of the world (starting with Adam ...
US annual gold production (1840–2012) In the United States, gold mining has taken place continually since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799. The first documented occurrence of gold was in Virginia in 1782. [ 1] Some minor gold production took place in North Carolina as early as 1793, but created no excitement.