Sentence examples for gold discovery from inspiring English sources

Coromandel, the second major settlement and site of gold discovery in 1852, lies to the west.

The stock market value of the Calgary company hit $4 billion before its gold discovery in Indonesia was found to be worthless in 1997.

After the initial success of "Bering Sea Gold," Discovery moved quickly to lock its stars into five-year contracts and avoid a "Storage Wars -style drama.

Over the last two years, Ivanhoe has invested more than $60 million in its Mongolian operation, the Turquoise Hill copper and gold discovery, and other projects, in Mongolia's South Gobi desert.

TORONTO (Reuters) — Goldcorp has agreed to buy a rival Canadian gold mining company, Gold Eagle Mines, for about 1.5 billion Canadian dollars ($1.47 billion) to pick up the Bruce Channel gold discovery, an exploration project adjacent to Goldcorp's flagship Red Lake operation.

Bre-X, which is now defunct, grew from an obscure gold-mining company into a sought-after investment, selling at $200 a share, or nearly $4 billion, at its peak before plunging to near zero as the company collapsed in November 1997 when doubts were raised about the gold discovery.

This shift occurred because recent gold discoveries in western North America had made gold more plentiful.

(Silver was swamped by a deluge of gold discoveries in the 19th century).

During the early 1870s, gold discoveries on tributaries of the Yukon River attracted prospectors to the area.

Attracted by gold discoveries in Victoria, Vogel emigrated to Australia in 1852 and became successful in business and journalism.

The great gold discoveries in California and Australia in the 1840s and '50s produced a temporary decline in the value of gold in terms of silver.