• Artist rendering of Pioneer Square during Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit

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Impacts of Mining

What are the impacts of mining? To study that one needs to know first what was mined. Most of the Klondike Gold Rush deposits were placer deposits essentially, gold recovered from gravel.

 

What other metals were the Klondike miners likely to find?

 

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Did You Know?

Fire destroyed buildings during the 1889 Seattle fire

Within 6 months of the The Great Seattle Fire of 1889 over 100  fireproof brick buildings had been built or were started in the downtown area.