What was gold mining like during the California Gold Rush?
Where did people mine for gold?
How did it feel?
What is the process of gold mining during the 1850s?
The prospectors retrieved the gold from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques such as panning, they would just set up home beside a stream/river and start panning till they found gold. The miners and sometimes their families were usually people who did not have any money and wanted to ‘get rich quick’ so I would imagine they would have been very excited to just pan a little bit of gold. All the prospectors arrived by land and sea in California all looking for the gold, and not all of them found it.
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