The arrastre system of pulverizing stone for ore extraction lead miners to build their own crude systems so it depends from operation to operation on how sophisticated the system was that they employed as to their respective milling costs. Suffice it to say if one were to use another;s system the cost would be much higher, there again varying in costs respective to each individual operation. The system was an animal driven dry method for ore extraction from the base material, via crushing the matrix materials.
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before the gold rush, a pick cost about two or three dollars, but after the gold rush the price was raised to six dollars
here's a list: gold pans sluice boxes gold spears horse-drawn arrastre to crush gold-bearing rock a good site: http://miningold.com/tools.html
Gold.
A shovel during the gold rush would cost $11.
actually all or the states went to California for gold
Gold, during the gold rush.
$100.000
China
China
California. The name hasn't changed.
gold rushers