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As word leaked out in 1848 about gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills, early-day entrepreneur Sam Brannan cornered the California market on pans, picks and shovels. 

]]> 2017-02-17 18:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/154670575 609246 https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/154671551 Miners during the early Gold Rush years wanted only one thing: gold. They didn’t care about elegance, craft or aesthetics. Greedy and in a hurry, they made do with simple yet effective tools]]> 2017-02-17 18:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/154671551 609246 https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/154672104 The gold panner patiently crouching alongside a river is symbolic of the Gold Rush, and yet gold pans were probably the most ineffective of all the miner’s tools, even though that is what most miners used early on. ]]> 2017-02-17 18:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/154672104 609246 https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/154674097 Although gold pans were much in evidence during the early days of the Gold Rush, miners used them less and less as time went on and they created better gold extraction devices. ]]> 2017-02-17 18:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/154674097 608657 https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/155277691 You can use an unbrella to pan for gold. ]]> 2017-02-21 19:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/155277691 609246 https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/155277771 You get gold from a river or a  cave.]]> 2017-02-21 19:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/155277771 609246 https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/155531907 Hydraulic mining is where you have a hose to spray against the hills Angeles something that holds the hose so it doesn't leak.]]> 2017-02-22 17:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/155531907 608657 https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/155538826 Hydraulic mining is water in hose that the miners made the hose back then. ]]> 2017-02-22 17:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/608657/ao376oq0zska/wish/155538826