And the parallels between the Gold Rush and the Internet Rush continue very strongly.

And what would happen is and the Gold Rush went on for years.

They had bad burn rate in the Gold Rush. A very bad burn rate.

Gold rush, land grabs. Mineral Canyon, you reckon?

But you had the same thing with the Gold Rush. Gold. Gold. Gold.

For one thing, both were very real.

And that is, in a gold rush, when it's over, it's over.

You had dotcom fever. And you had gold fever.

Bluefin are pursued wherever they go there is a gold rush on Earth, and this is a gold rush for bluefin.

Now, here's where our analogy with the Gold Rush starts to diverge, and I think rather severely.

This is actually from the Klondike Gold Rush. This is the White Pass Trail.

Say, how's the claim panning out?

Goldrunner Prophecy

I'm a golddigger.

Because, you know, resilience if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone.

X11 clone of Lode Runner

After the Gold Rush

Hunt Gold, Dodge Enemies and Solve Puzzles

And so I think the tempting analogy for the boom bust that we just went through with the Internet is a gold rush.

In 1849, in that Gold Rush, they took over 700 million worth of gold out of California. It was very real.

Half of them deserted to go look for gold.

Why not try golddigging for a change?

Elimination is crucial here.

The dot com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush. But Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says it s more like the early days of the electric industry.

That holds for hunters, but not for gold miners.

Help Matt Goldrunner escape the traps of ancient Egypt.

In the Gold Rush, people literally jumped ship.

Buffalo hunters where there're no longer any buffalo, cowboys where there're no cows, prospectors where there's no gold.

No, no, Toto. Naughty, naughty. Here.

Table 3 MB scheduled for elimination of almost 8000 tonnes of MB in existing MLF projects

Fads, Frenzies, and Finance

Women have long been engaged in traditional gold panning and small scale diamond mining.

Table 3 MB scheduled for elimination of almost 8000 tonnes of MB in existing MLF projects

But I was thinking... poor wretch that I am, of seizing some gold in Crimea...

Just prepare the rice.

Tramp.

Thailand is due to submit a national phase out plan to the MLF soon.

Or was Venus extremely hot?

About 93 of the MB will be eliminated in the first 5 years of the existing MLF project.

It's a bit naughty.

Obsolescence and depreciation

Those lousy bums!

You're a wicked naughty dog.

Yohei, what's wrong! Hurry up!

Don't be a silly girl. Come on.