Will this year have a gold rush

In Dawson City Canadian miners hope to the great good fortune. Hundreds may be a rich. Yet the optimism remains high.
In the gold-rush town of Dawson City can be the frozen Yukon River no longer enter. Under the warm spring sun melts the ice. Soon, the ice blocks to great fanfare and the river burst hinuntertreiben. Impatiently waiting for the gold miners in Canada's Yukon Territory to the fact that the streams flowing again and gold from the sand can be washed. "With today's prices, this year we have a gold rush," predicts Reid Haines, Dawson City in the tool shop.
The Canadian has teamed with a partner and wants to hire some people to get the most from today's gold boom out. Become rich, he is yet, its revenue, he has better equipment made. "It costs enormously, out of the gold," he says, "and there are many large companies in this business." But, as Haines assured, as he had people in the Yukon is still the chance of a rich Goldader to discover.
Still lucky The Fortunate, in Dawson City are rich, however, depend not on the big bell. "We tell anyone what we find," says Haines. You see it too. If someone suddenly in great style, new trucks and equipment purchases. Or if gold seekers from one day to the other from Canada's north in the warmth of the South American off. "The millionaires are not here to go to Hawaii or Palm Springs," says Romy Jansen who have been over twenty years of self-made gold jewelry in her shop sells Wild & Wooly "From hundreds of makes it perhaps one."
Dawson sees how many are still in the times of the gold rush. Wooden sidewalks on stilts over the lead-permafrost soil, which is in the rain turns into mud. Some historic buildings disintegrated, while others appear in its former glory, as Diamond Tooth Gertie's Gambling and Bombay Peggy's former brothel, which is now a guest house. The hope of fabulous wealth had 1897 Tens of thousands of gold prospectors in the Yukon lured even the legendary writer Jack London, after the customer of gold in the Klondike River had made the rounds. Many men and some women wanted the Depression in the U.S. to escape. After a grueling voyage landed in Skagway most needed in the winter of tons of food over steep mountain passes and drag in the summer of dangerous rapids on the rivers overcome.
Most fail When they finally in 1898 in Dawson City arrived, were all gold diggers licenses already granted. The most impoverished went back home. Today, only barely 1900 people here and not, as during the boom, nearly 40 000 But in the Yukon Gold is still to be found, and in the bar of the Hotel Eldorado meeting today like the gold prospectors and businessmen.
Claim 33 is a registered Goldsuchgebiet Jerry Brides, not far from the Bonanza Creek Eldorado Creek, the two streams in Dawson City, where 1896 the first gold was discovered. Is still snow, but soon Jerry Bride is about 20 kilometers away for gold digging. He gets his gold from the pans by a wood stove heated tent in which he lives. In the pan he washes gravel and sand and dirt from the creek, like the men over a hundred years ago.
The heavy gold falls to the floor pan and can be herausgeklaubt. "The small pans are designed for beginners," says Bride. "I guess the big ones." The gold particles often show a greater incidence of deep underground, usually in rock included. Then the gold diggers dig into the depths to the core menu.
"Last summer I found some 100 fine ounces of gold," says the miners and fingert five nuggets from a container. The current prices are more than 90,000 U.S. Dollar. For nuggets are but two to three times more money than paid for molten gold, says Bride. Because Nuggets are unique in form and as jewelry and souvenirs begehrt.Schon previously were machines for Wühlarbeit in the soil used.
At the Bonanza Creek there are still a three-story high dredging from the gold rush period. With machines are also the brothers Bernard and Ron Johnson for the gold body. The Bonanza Creek can be seen from their claim. First they blow up the rocks and clear the rubble from Goldsuchgebiet and bushes. Then the earth with a backhoe abgegraben, the rock and smashed the boulder from the bulldozer in a laundry chute is thrown.
There will be shaken up in gold and dirty water separate. Often, the yellow metal contains about 22 percent silver, Bernard Johnson says: "The more pure the gold, the more golden it seems." For the rough men and women in the Yukon is the fascination of the precious metal continued unabated.
"It's out there, man," said Doug Jackson, who has 20 years in the vicinity of Dawson City to Gold buddelt. "It is always a shovel dirt away fine ounces in 1000."
Or from nearly one million U.S. Dollar. Jackson has been as a boy looking for gold, he says, "just as I was capable of a gold pan to keep. So far, he could just live by what he captured gold. But this year he wants to become rich." If you Gold fever did, you remain an eternal optimist, "he says," you never give up. "