A gold fever has gripped Brazil, and the excitement can be likened only to the days of ’49 in California, and the early days of the Klondike. Repeated reports that new big gold strikes have been made in the State of Alinas, Geraes, have caused a rush to the mining camps. The picturesque scenes of earlier gold rushes are lacking, for nowadays prospectors travel by train and motor cars, and scientific organisation by practical mining scientists replaces the rough and ready methods of the old-timers. Little towns which were once famous as mining camps, but have for a 100 years or more been engaged in farming rather than mining, what was believed to be “ worked out ” country, are taking on a new lease of life.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 21
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