He never finished high school and worked for a time as a gold miner.
Up to 1,500 Indians may have died over the last two years as a result of the gold miners' presence on their land.
Many of the original gold miners and town founders were among those who left.
During his early years, he worked as a gold miner and a cowboy.
As a result, gold miners eventually reached the area in the 1870s-1890s, searching for resources and rich land.
In 1853 he was discharged from the Army and became a gold miner for several years.
He had robbed a Chinese gold miner and been in trouble with the police.
The Public School was opened in 1891 for 28 children of the local gold miners and had one teacher.
The couple then moved to Australia, where she worked briefly as a gold miner.
"No point living here like a gold miner in the Yukon."
It is mainly a farming community but its early residents were gold miners and prospectors.
A new Government expelled most gold miners from the Yanomami reserve, but by then malaria was endemic.
"Why aren't gold miners who rape and murder Yanomami women punished?"
Brazilians, many of them gold miners.
James W. Marshall - gold miner who set off the California Gold Rush.
Salgado was already well known for his photographs of workers around the world, the first of which - gold miners in Para, Brazil - had appeared in the Magazine four years earlier.
It began when Chinese people were invited to New Zealand to work as gold miners during the 1860 gold rush in Otago.
Johnny was initially successful, but found that when gold miners arrived in the area, he was at a disadvantage, because he spoke French and the newcomers spoke English.
In 2010, the three-day program consisted of presentations by major and minor mining companies, especially gold miners.
Sixty-three people in northeastern Congo have died of an unknown disease that has killed most its victims, nearly all of them gold miners, within six days.