After the Goldrush

Free event | No booking required

 

This is a free event from the Oxford Geology Trust, but suggested donations of £3 would enable the Trust to continue providing these lectures.

About the event

Jeremy Mainwaring-Burton
 

News of the discovery of gold in California in 1848 signalled the start of the World’s first major gold rush. Within the year of 1849 alone the new American territory’s population swelled five-fold as eighty thousand ‘Argonauts’ hurried there in the hope of claiming a share of the golden riches. Many more followed, including Jeremy Mainwaring-Burton who arrived in California 145 years later hoping to claim his share.

Jeremy’s skilfully illustrated and entertaining talk is a mixture of ancient and modern; ancient being an account of the 1849 gold rush, and modern being about his adventures in the 1990s prospecting for gold in Venezuela and Colombia then mining in California.

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Wheelchair accessible? Yes
Hearing loops? Yes
Seating? Yes
Refreshments? No
Flashing lights? No
Loud noises? No

 

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