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.
swim in the river and hope to find gold. (this is true!)
a river
Italy does not mine for gold of diamonds. Italy does, however, mine for 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 =)
Gold mine in French is "mine d'or."
karnataka has a gold mine
You need an iron pickaxe or better to mine gold. Ironically, a gold pickaxe will not be able to mine itself.
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The Homestake Gold Mine in South Dakota was the biggest gold mine in the western hemisphere when it was in production, but this ceased in 2001.The Yanacocha Gold Mine in Peru now holds the record for the largest working gold mine in the western hemisphere.
Reed Gold Mine was created in 1799.
The Homestake Gold Mine in South Dakota was the biggest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere when it was in production, but this ceased in 2001.The Yanacocha Gold Mine in Peru now holds the record for the largest working gold mine in the western hemisphere.
The deepest gold mine in Australia is the Super Pit or Kalgoorlie-Boulder. This mine produces 850,000 ounces of gold yearly.