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Definition of gold fever in English: gold fevernoun mass nounThe excitement associated with the urge to search for gold in recently discovered goldfields. new settlers moved to town as gold fever swept the country Example sentencesExamples - Two decades of gold fever ensued, and coal mining lay dormant until its resurgence in 1904.
- Perhaps he was just caught up in the general gold fever that recurred at various times all through the 19th century and climaxed in the 96-98 rush.
- Some were looking for work that mattered, but as the Gold Rush escalated into Gold Fever, more and more were looking for their big score.
- Overseas prospecting companies already have satellite data on the location of India's gold reserves and these look tempting enough to start a gold fever.
- At the time of the gold fever of 1850, he went to California and was engaged in mining for fifteen years.
- After rounding Cape Horn, he lost most of his crew to gold fever in Valparaiso, Chile, where the venture ended.
- Kohrs, a German immigrant whose gold fever had led him to California and Canada, arrived in Montana in 1862.
- By the 1850s, once the first flush of gold fever was over, a number of the immigrants turned to grape-growing and wine-making as a more reliable source of income.
- His governorship of Hispaniola was the low point, an outburst of gold fever accompanied by the enslavement and slaughter of the native people.
- The last time gold fever hit Scotland was in 1868, when gold reserves were discovered at Kildonan in Sutherland.
- As what usually happened to many young men of that era in the West, he caught gold fever and went to work in a gold mine.
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