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I'm thinking by (how did?) you mean in the old west. Gold prospecting back then was a rather primitive method for finding and recovering gold. Usually pick and pan, shovel, hand made sluice and rocker boxes.
Back then they went as far as to divert a gold bearing river so they could work the gold bearing gravels.
Mostly back then they searched the stream-beds and river-beds(as they do now) to find gold and then prospected the river banks to try and find the source for the gold that they found.
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What work did the prospecters do?
swim in the river and hope to find gold. (this is true!)
Where were many prospecters going to find gold before hargraves discovery?
a river
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A mine that had no gold?
Well... The Lumbridge mine has no gold... The mine west of the Lumbridge mine has no gold... The mine near the Champion's guild has no gold... the mine east of the dark wizards has no gold... and I don't think the dwarven mine has any gold. I hope those are the answers your looking for =)
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In what state is the largest gold mine in the western hemisphere located?
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