Boomtown

:This article is about boomtowns in human geography. For other uses of the term, see Boomtown (disambiguation).

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A boomtown is a community that experiences sudden and rapid growth, normally attributed to the discovery of a precious resource such as gold or silver.

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During the gold rush fever in the American Southwest, many boomtowns arose. For most of these "overnight expansions", a pattern evolved that a small town or area would report the discovery of a highly sought-after resource, people would flock in droves to stake a claim and then begin mining operations. Industries would set up shop to take advantage of the hordes of citizens and conduct business both related (mining equipment, mules, firearms, etc.) and unrelated (saloons, mercantile companies, livery stables, hotels, restaurants, etc.) to the actual mining. The downfall of many of these towns came about when the mined resources were depleted, resulting in the desertion of a significant portion of the town inhabitants. The town's economic strength would collapse and result in a ghost town.

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Gold: Gold is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Au (L. aurum) and atomic number 79. A soft, shiny, yellow, heavy, malleable, ductile (trivalent and univalent) transition metal, gold does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine, fluorine and aqua regia. The meta...

Silver: :This page is about silver the element. For the color, see silver (color)....

Gold rush: A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. In the history of the United States and Canada, several gold rushes took place throughout the 19th century, first in the Appalachians, and later in the Sierra Nevada, the ...

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