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Gold and Silver Fever

GOLD & SILVER TEVER THE CR AZY THINGS DONE IN THE NAME OF GOLD & SILVER DEATH. DECEPTION. AND BETRAYAL ALL TO BE FIRST IN LINE TO CLAIM THESE COVETED MINERALS, BECAU SE "if you don't hold it, you don't own il!" D0000 0000000000000000000000e GOLD F EVER EACH HOUR, more sleel is poured THAN THE ENTRÈ AMOUNT OF GOLD poured throughoul ONE OF THE RAREST MINERALS ON EARTH For every person on earth there are 24.75 GRAMS OF GOLD HISTORY 168,Ø00 TONS: TOTAL AMOUNT OF GOLD EVER MINED IN THE WORLD 3,000 BOCE: EGYPT Pharaohs conslructed the first mines, ADORNING THEIR THRONES. CITIES. AND SERVANTS WITH GOLD There wasn't any TNT bock then- Death by poisonous fumes and falling rocks was common ers lit fires to crack the rocks FIRST USE OF GOLD AS BARTERING MATERIAL Egyphions troded their gold for Lebonese wood and Babylonian horses The legend of El Dorado: AUMORS OF A GOLDEN CTY RULED BY A GOLDEN KING SPREAD THROUGH EUROPE. 16TH CENTURY: COLOMBIA SPANISH GOLD H UNTERS FLOODED INTO SOUTH AMERICA IN SEARCH OF THE FABLED LOCALE Unoble to find the city, the Sponiards sloughtered countless tribes, koking heir gold on chuolpa's Incon cty with 300 soldiers. The Sun King hunter, welcomed them, then Pizarro's soldiers shot and killed 2,000 people. TAKING ALL OF THEIR GOLD nd jewelry. 1532: Francisco Pizorro, Sponish gold 1848: CALIFORNIA The great American gold rush Newspapers daimed "Gold foundl" in Colifomia, and some 300,000 prospectors (nicknamed "49ers") from around the world Rocked to the territory SAN FRANCISCO GREW FROM 200 PERMANENT RESIDENTS TO 36000 OVER JUST SIX YEARS THAT'S A 17,900% INCREASE While panning for gold in frigid rivers mony fell ill and died Thousands of Native Americons were sloughtered or died from sickness $2 BILLION: VÄLUE OF ALL GOLD EXTRACTED Cold is becoming increasingly DIFFICULT TO FIND TODAY MINERS OFTEN DIG THROUGH 30 TONS OF ROCK TO FIND ENOUGH GOLD TO PRODUCE JUST 1 RING! Many of these chosms ore visible from space 5 MILLION LBS. Amount of gold jewelry purchased in 2007 500,000: Eslimaled number of miners working in the Amazon's gold mines D000000000000000000000000000 SILVER BOOM SILVER WAS MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD CHART-TOPPING STATS. ANCIENT EGYPT MOST REFLECTIVE METAL BEST C ONDUCTOR OF ELECTRICITY BEST CONDUCTOR OF H EAT 2ND MOST MALLEABLE METAL (AFTER GOLD) D0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 482 BCE: LAURION Alhens found its weallh undernealh the cily-stale's loundalion 350: TOTAL NUMBER OF SILVER MINES IN THE REGION 20,000: NUMBER OF SLAVES FORCED TO WORK THE MINES Forced into extreme working conditions and squalor Miners crawled through cramped, deep mine shafts PRODUCED 1,000 TALENTS A YEAR THAT'S ROUGHLY 57,000 LBS. OR $10.8 MILLION IN SILVER AT TODAY'S VALUE! PLANCHAS DE PLATA ("SLABS OF SILVER") 1736: MEXICO SOME SLABS OF SILVER WEIGHED OVER 2,500 LBS.! Years of legal battles followed the discovery, with both the miners and the government claiming ownership AN ESTIMATED 100,000 TONS OF SILVER HAS SINCE BEEN EXTRACTED FROM THE REGION 14-YEAR GOLD R USH 1879: COILORADO LASTED UNTIL 1893 $82 MILLION: Tolal value of silver mined during the boom NUMEROUS NATIVE TRIBES FORCED ONTO RESERVATIONS SILVER IS MAKING A COMEBACK TODAY 7616 MILLION OUNCES. GLOBAL AMOUNT OF SILVER MINED IN 2011 Over the last 3 decodes, the technology industry has consumed 95% of the world's silver supplies There are over 10,Ø00 industrial uses for the magic white metal! The USCS eslimales that silver in lhe earth's crust will be depleled by 2020 al the current consumplion. Silver ore grades are rapidly declining and only found shallow in the earth's crust DGREAT SOUTHERN COINS SOURCES http://www.chainmeup.com.ou/rivia.ap http://www.history.com/topics/gold-rush-of-1849 http://mogma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0901/orticles/mainarticle.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jan/11/brazil mainsection http://www.usern http://www.nps.gov/huma/historycuhure/orizona planchas-de plota htm http://denvercolorodo.org/history-ploces of interest/colorado-silver boom/ http://www.nma.org/pdf/g_silver producers pdf http://minerals.usgs gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/silver/mes-2011-slve pd http://www.silverinstute.org/site/ solobolnet.co.uk/- /-loxias/silvermine her

Gold and Silver Fever

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Gold and Silver Fever. The crazy things done in the name of gold and silver.

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