Gold mining

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Gold minerals [edit]

  • Gold ore

  • Fontannen-Gold smy-06.jpg

Placer surface mining [edit]

Gold panning [edit]

  • De re metallica p 282.jpg
  • Gold prospector.jpg
  • Panning on the Mokelumne.jpg
  • Gold Pan.jpg
  • Goldwaschen.jpg
  • Guinea Siguiri miner woman.jpg
  • L MinerColomaFestival2004.jpg
  • Grabill - Washing and panning gold.jpg

  • Gold panning at Bonanza Creek, Yukon, Canada

  • Placer gold mining, Korea, ca. 1900

  • Man panning for gold in Madagascar

Rockers and sluice mining [edit]

  • Sluice box

  • Riffles with gold dust and gravel

  • Rocker box (cradle)

  • Rocker box (cradle)

  • Chinese Gold Miners b.jpg
  • PG - Miners washing gold-bearing sand near Beryozovsky.jpg

  • Beach miners, Nome, Alaska

  • Beach miners, Nome, Alaska

  • Beach miners, Nome, Alaska

Hydraulic mining [edit]

  • Hydraulic monitor

  • Hydraulic monitor

  • Gold sluicing, Dillman Town, West Coast, 188-?.jpg
  • X-60072.jpg

Underground mining [edit]

  • Skidoo 01.jpg
  • Gold mine.jpg
  • Hiller Tunnel, Malakoff Diggins.jpg
  • Water pump at Lost Horse Mine from side.jpg
  • Cogs and cranks at Lost Horse mine front.jpg
  • Lost Horse Mine.jpg
  • Mina da passagem.jpg
  • Mining with steam points.jpg

Technology [edit]

  • Pan, cradle, Long Tom, and pump

  • Steam point, for thawing frozen ground

  • Section of a drift mine, showing the use of thawing

Miscellaneous [edit]

  • PascuaLamaPlanMap.png
  • Sutters Mill.jpg
  • Sutters mill .JPG
  • Andacollo Mercury evaporation.jpg
  • Manweighingdaysgold.jpg
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