so where are the most gold fields in the
United States today they’re not where
you might expect they’re not in Alaska
or North Carolina or even California if
you’ve got Gold Fever follow the data to
Nevada it’s the state with the greatest
concentration of gold mines in the
country and those mines are a magnet for
a new breed of treasure hunter we make a
lot of money to do what we do
I worked five months out of the year I
make over a hundred thousand a year it’s
a really good wage for five months you
find something right there yeah my dad
was a miner when I was a kid I wanted to
do mining and I used to go explore all
the old underground mines that were done
in the 1800s
my day starts with going 40,000 feet
down around 13 football fields straight
down gold-mining has turned parts of
Nevada into old-time boom towns
attracting modern-day treasure hunters
from all over
when Gold’s up people come from all over
the world to get job in the mines in
Northern Nevada so I’ve worked with
teachers professors from college about
75% of the country’s gold comes from
Nevada
if Nevada were its own country it would
be the sixth largest gold producer on
the planet
in 2012 Nevada mines produced almost 7
billion dollars in gold that’s about 9
times the amount mined by the next
biggest gold producing state Alaska and
prices have been pretty golden lately
climbing from 272 dollars per ounce in
two thousand two one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six dollars an ounce
in 2011 when gold is up the whole area
booms there’s more people more jobs more
stuff going on people have been catching
Gold Fever Nevada and it’s no wonder why
Nevada median household income is just
over $54,000 and the average salary for
a gold miner eighty six thousand four
hundred and seventy six dollars a lot of
that money is earned in a gold field
called the Carlin Trend it’s an area
about 40 miles long in five miles wide
and there are over a dozen mines tapping
into it
United States today they’re not where
you might expect they’re not in Alaska
or North Carolina or even California if
you’ve got Gold Fever follow the data to
Nevada it’s the state with the greatest
concentration of gold mines in the
country and those mines are a magnet for
a new breed of treasure hunter we make a
lot of money to do what we do
I worked five months out of the year I
make over a hundred thousand a year it’s
a really good wage for five months you
find something right there yeah my dad
was a miner when I was a kid I wanted to
do mining and I used to go explore all
the old underground mines that were done
in the 1800s
my day starts with going 40,000 feet
down around 13 football fields straight
down gold-mining has turned parts of
Nevada into old-time boom towns
attracting modern-day treasure hunters
from all over
when Gold’s up people come from all over
the world to get job in the mines in
Northern Nevada so I’ve worked with
teachers professors from college about
75% of the country’s gold comes from
Nevada
if Nevada were its own country it would
be the sixth largest gold producer on
the planet
in 2012 Nevada mines produced almost 7
billion dollars in gold that’s about 9
times the amount mined by the next
biggest gold producing state Alaska and
prices have been pretty golden lately
climbing from 272 dollars per ounce in
two thousand two one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six dollars an ounce
in 2011 when gold is up the whole area
booms there’s more people more jobs more
stuff going on people have been catching
Gold Fever Nevada and it’s no wonder why
Nevada median household income is just
over $54,000 and the average salary for
a gold miner eighty six thousand four
hundred and seventy six dollars a lot of
that money is earned in a gold field
called the Carlin Trend it’s an area
about 40 miles long in five miles wide
and there are over a dozen mines tapping
into it
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