Yes: it is inevitable that, where a concentrated number of people are digging into the ground within any area, the environment will be affected.
Environmentally, the goldrush was a disaster, although unrecognised at the time. Features of the Australian landscape were forever altered in the space of a few decades, and soil erosion was a major effect, the evidence of which can still be seen today. Alluvial gold mining left the environment cleared and razed in many places, whilst "mullock heaps" were left behind to scar the landscape.
Water quality was affected as people used the creeks and rivers for all their activities, including bathing and washing dirty (sometimes disease-ridden) clothes. Water salinity rose as natural watercourses were diverted.
Introduced noxious weeds decimated native flora and affected native fauna, as did the introduction of domestic animals to hitherto unpopulated areas.
It gave them more money, I learned about it that way.
The Californian gold rush!
The California gold rush was not a problem.
he was a big help with the gold rush
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The gold rush brought people to California, many cities were built, and hydrolic mining ruined the environment somewhat by hosing down hills.
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It had a big imact
i think that since so many people were cumin to California for the gold rush that the railroads were used and need more
It gave them more money, I learned about it that way.
It moved a lot of people into California.
it made it grow smaller and die
The Californian gold rush!
when it was the manifest destiny, and the gold rush made them rich