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威肯勃格鎮的淘金潮日
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您想親手進行採金礦的工作嗎？只要參加亞利桑那州的威肯勃格鎮的淘金潮日，就有機會一試身手了！每一年，威肯勃格商會都會贊助舉辦慶祝大會，旨在表彰該鎮的礦業及牧業傳統，而參加者都有機會參與挖金及淘金工作！
無論在何處發現黃金，當地總是會湧入一大批想要快速致富的人潮，這也是淘金潮的由來。當冒險家威肯勃格(Henry
Wickenburg)於1863年，在哈薩亞姆帕河沿岸發現黃金後，它不只帶來了淘金潮，更促成威肯勃格鎮的造鎮。
1948年，威肯勃格商會決定舉辦一項慶祝活動，藉以表彰黃金的發現；競賽項目包括了鑽
巖和除渣比賽及淘金比賽。鑽巖及除渣是將黃金自地面挖出來的方式，除渣機是一台機器，負責挖出地下的石頭，並將這些碎石運送至輸送帶上，而手動除渣則是指工人由開挖礦砂及不要的石頭。淘金則是自溪流及河水中，將金砂及金粒分離出來的方式；
採金礦是一項相當耗時又耗力的工作！
How would you like to strike gold? There is a gold rush going on in Wickenburg, Arizona. You just have to get in and muck about! Every year, the Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce sponsors a festival to celebrate the town's mining and ranching heritage, and participants get to shovel and pan for gold!
Wherever gold is discovered, there is usually a large rush of people who are hoping to get rich quick, which is why it is called a "gold rush." When Henry Wickenburg, an adventurer, discovered gold along the Hassayampa River in 1863, it caused a gold rush, and the town was founded.
In 1948, the Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce decided to hold a festival in honor of this discovery. Contests include a drilling and mucking contest and a gold-panning contest. Drilling and mucking is the way that gold is taken from the ground. A mucker is a machine that gets the rock out of the ground and moves broken rock onto a conveyor belt. A hand mucker is a man who shovels ore and unwanted rock out of a mine. Gold panning is the way in which gold dust and flecks are removed from streams and rivers. It takes a lot of work to strike gold!
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