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After the Gold Rush ended, and the prospectors no longer provided business for the towns.

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Q: What happened to boom towns when mines were closed?
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What happened to boom towns once the mines that supported them were used up?

Many were abandoned, and are called ghost towns.


What happened to boom-towns once the mines that supported them were used up?

Many were abandoned, and are called ghost towns.


What is the name of a town that mines for gold and silver?

they were called boom towns because they sprung up quickly


What usually happend to boomtowns throughout the west after the mines closed?

Most Boom Towns went bust after the mineral that was being mined became depleted, or the ore became unprofitable. In fact, early Boom Towns in the 1880's through the 1900's were lawless places which were run by company gangs or union gangs! Updated By: Levi M Levitt


What are boom towns?

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After the initial boom in gold mining towns what happened to most mining operations?

Large mining companies bought out small miners.


What did women in boom towns do?

They had sex


Why did some towns quickly grow and fall in the west?

Towns -boom Towns - could grow up quickly due to gold or some other valuable ore being found nearby. But since people then didn't have good methods to survey how much there was, the Towns coul die just as Quick when the mines weent empty.


What name was given to towns that grew very suddenly in the west?

boom towns


When mining booms were followed by busts boom towns turned into what?

Ghost towns


What name was given to towns that grew very suddenly in west?

boom towns


How you Use the word boom in a sentence?

The Gold Mines had a massive boom in profits.