Introduction: The new gold rush in Asia

Rajiv Biswas

A chapter in Future Asia, 2013, pp 1-4 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California triggered a gold rush, with an estimated 300,000 persons becoming prospectors in difficult conditions. People came from all corners of the earth to seek their fortune, including from Europe, China, Australia and Latin America. Just three years later, significant gold finds in New South Wales and Victoria in Australia started a new gold rush, which also attracted fortune-hunters from many parts of the world. In the 1880s, another gold rush started in Western Australia, in what were to become the famed goldfields of Kalgoorlie, which remains a major gold mining town to this day.

Keywords: Gold Rush; Growth Engine; Growth Driver; ASEAN Forum; Frontier Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137027221_1

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