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Diggers in the gold rushes (Australian and American) used the following equipment and methods to find gold:

  • Panning involved the use of a solid pan. An amount of potentially gold-bearing dirt was placed in the pan with some water, and gently swished and shaken around, a process which would bring the smaller particles of gold to the surface.
  • Cradling involved a wooden box loosely resembling a cradle. The cradle was used for sifting through larger amounts of sediment to find gold, and was popular from the early times of the goldrushes. It required at least two men to work. The cradle had a grate and a sieve. The dirt and sediment to be sifted through was emptied onto the grate in the cradle. The cradle was rocked quickly back and forth (in the action of a cradle) while water was poured over the sediment to help work it through. The grate stopped coarser stones from going through, while the fine material was sifted out the other end. The gold would be left behind for easy collection.
  • Sieves were also popular. They were like a pan but with a mesh base through which the water would drain, to help separate gold from similar sized particles.
  • Windlass was one of the slower methods of mining for gold. Two people were required to operate it, one at the surface and one in the mine shaft. The person in the shaft filled a bucket with potential gold-bearing soil and rocks, and the person on the surface operated the windlass to wind up the bucket. The contents of the bucket were then sorted through, perhaps in a cradle or a pan.
  • Long Toms were like cradles, but they used paddlewheels to make sure there was a continuous flow of water. This method was used in America, but rare in Australia.

Other tools included utensils for digging and carrying gold-bearing soil. They included basic equipment for survival, for constructing some sort of shelter, or simple protection. These included:

  • shovel
  • pick
  • rope
  • saw
  • axe
  • pick
  • wheelbarrow
  • knife
  • gun

If you found a large gold mine, the tools and equipment above are not enough. You should break the rock or stone, and separate the gold from others. The tools and equipment are crusher, ball mill, flotation cell and others.

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