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Go to TCI in Clever and find Chapter 7: The Gold Rush Changes California. Read Section 2 - Life in a Mining Camp. This chapter talks about food, housing, and what kind of equipment miners used to find gold.
Click here to go to the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on the California Gold Rush. Click on the Table of Contents in the upper left-hand corner to read the "Mining Methods" section to read more about exactly how miners would mine for gold.
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Watch a video on how miners used panning, cradles, and long toms to search for gold. These were the earliest gold mining methods.
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Look through this series of pictures and read an essay about how mining changed over time. Though it began with individual prospectors panning for gold, it ended with companies using large hydraulic machines. (from the Oakland Museum of California)
Watch this video about how hydraulic mining completely changed the Bay Area environment, and how we're still dealing with it's pollution today. It gets pretty deep into the science, so if you have any questions, make sure to check in with your classroom teacher or your science teacher!
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