
Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know
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How Many Miners Make Real Money in a Gold Rush?
In a gold rush, on average, what percentage of mine actually made any real money from their activities? You're suggesting here, not that many. Yovat a very low %. Am, if you're in california, am, the most youre making is about a dollar a day. But bort of this is ad that they face. Board and lodging might cost as much as three dollars a day. Becomes much more cost effective to work together in companies. And so chinese miners and and white miners and other and miners a large working ancompanies. For that reason is to san it only because it is a gambl and very few make it rich,
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