by Mike Rupert

Modern Mining Operations and Equipment

mrupert — 2015-10-13 20:47:51 UTC

1800's Era Mining Operations and Equipment

mrupert — 2015-10-13 20:49:08 UTC

Pick Axe

mrupert — 2015-10-13 20:59:14 UTC

A pick axe was used for both placer and lode mining

sluice box

2015-10-13 21:11:29 UTC

A Sluice Box is a box that has a water source running through it and the water pushes rocks/gold into the box

Mules

cwmcmullen — 2015-10-13 21:11:58 UTC

Mules are donkey horse crosses that were used to haul stuff

Candles

2015-10-13 21:12:13 UTC

Candles were used in the 1800s for light until electricity came along

Bulldozers

2015-10-13 21:12:45 UTC

bulldozers are used to scoop up dirt

Software

2015-10-13 21:13:08 UTC

Computers, code,

Light

2015-10-13 21:13:35 UTC

Used for seeing in the mine

mining carts

2015-10-13 21:14:32 UTC

Candles

2015-10-13 21:14:33 UTC

Candles were a source of light made by wax and the wax is surrounding the wick that catches on fire to make light.

Dynamite

2015-10-13 21:14:53 UTC

Dynamite is used to blow up the mine to make it bigger.

Roofbolters

2015-10-13 21:15:45 UTC

Roofbolters are used too bolt the the roof of the mine. (Modern Mining Machine)

Computers

2015-10-13 21:16:26 UTC

Computers are now used for locating gold and goods.

Gold Pan

2015-10-13 21:17:57 UTC

a pan that miners use to find gold in a river.

Flash lights

2015-10-13 21:18:29 UTC

Flash lights are used today to see in the mines instead of a candle.

Electricity

2015-10-13 21:18:32 UTC

Electricity is a source of light that goes even were in the mine to provide a better light source than in the 1800s.

conveyer belt

2015-10-13 21:18:51 UTC

they use the conveyr belt to move the gold

Gold panning

2015-10-13 21:19:19 UTC

You can pan for gold with it, and you can find fools gold.

mining carts

2015-10-13 21:20:08 UTC

They used mining carts in the 1800's they do not use mining carts now days they use to use mining carts might be used now days but not in a lot of places like they wre used in the 1800

Convater belts

2015-10-13 21:20:35 UTC

Used to transport gold

Tailings

2015-10-13 21:20:46 UTC

ores and minrals that are left over from mining

Hammer

2015-10-13 21:21:38 UTC

To hit the rock in the mines and it is also used to hit a nall into the wallm

Rats

2015-10-13 21:22:14 UTC

Rats were an animal used to know when a cave in was going to happen because when the cave rumbled rat`s wiskers feel the cave rumbling.

Placer mining

2015-10-13 21:23:02 UTC

Placer mining is when you mine on top of the earth not inside of the earth.

computers:)

2015-10-13 21:23:46 UTC

A tech to see were ore is found in the mines that go really far down in a hole.

Sledge Hammer

2015-10-13 21:24:56 UTC

A tool that miners used to hit a nail in the wall

Metal detector

2015-10-13 21:25:26 UTC

Used to find metal such as gold,silver, and other metal stuff.

Ore bucket

2015-10-13 21:26:26 UTC

Ore buckets where used to carry gold and other items by hand.

Water Cannon

2015-10-13 21:27:02 UTC

A cannon that shots water at a hill to get the dirt away and start to dig.

Boarding houses

2015-10-13 21:27:39 UTC

A boarding house is for miners to live in.

Birds

2015-10-13 21:29:13 UTC

The miners will use a bird to see if the oxagan is good or bad, so if the bird starts to go upside down the oxagan is bad

Double Jack

2015-10-13 21:29:42 UTC

A Double Jack was a mallet that was used to pound rocks further into a mine.

Stablelizers

2015-10-13 21:30:09 UTC

C.A.T.S

2015-10-13 21:31:40 UTC

cats are use for picking up dirt and rocks

Drills

2015-10-13 21:34:55 UTC

A Drill is a metal machine that is used to drill into a mine to get to the Jack Pot!

Mercury

cwmcmullen — 2015-10-13 21:34:58 UTC

Mercury is a liquid metal

Boarding house

2015-10-13 21:37:00 UTC

A boarding house is a version of a hotel.

Dredge boat

2015-10-13 21:38:29 UTC

A dredge boat is boat that digs under water, (mines ore and minerals

Canary Bird

2015-10-13 21:38:56 UTC

A Canary Bird is a very delicate bird that they used to see if the air is safe. How they did that was, they brought the bird into the back of the mine and if the bird fell upside down they knew the air/oxogine was not safe.

Mining shovels

2015-10-13 21:42:34 UTC

also they used mining shovels so that they can dig for Gold

Helmet Light

2015-10-14 21:09:13 UTC

A helmet that has a light on the helmet.

Pressure cooker

2015-10-14 21:12:02 UTC

They use pressure cookers to turn the cold into a liqed and pour it into a mold.

Candels

2015-10-14 21:13:21 UTC

Candels were used in the the 1800s.

Boarding House

2015-10-14 21:14:16 UTC

A house that miners lived in when they are in mining season.

Wood to hold the mine up

2015-10-14 21:14:21 UTC

Wood to hold the rocks up.

Blacksmith

2015-10-14 21:14:30 UTC

Blacksmiths made ore cart tracks,picaxes,shovels,single jacks and double jacks.

Hand signal

2015-10-14 21:18:16 UTC

With the the double jack and singlel gack for stoping at ten inches hole to lode up the explosives.

Boarding house

2015-10-14 21:20:27 UTC

In the 1800 a Boarding house is what the miners use to live in back then.The miners did not have a bath room or a shower to wash them self.Boarding house has a some thing that we have now .The miners had a dinner table and beds.

Dump trucks

2015-10-14 21:22:57 UTC

Dump Trucks are a big truck that they use to carry large amounts of rock out of the mine.

Mining Tractors

2015-10-14 21:24:45 UTC

Mining Tractors are used in the mine today to scoop up rock and to put it into a dump truck.

Kettles

2015-10-14 21:28:00 UTC

They did not have Kettles in the olden days.

Black

2015-10-14 21:28:26 UTC

Blacksmith made lots of stuff for the town like pick axes, house shoes, and shovels they also were the dentist.

Sluice box

mcvaille24 — 2015-10-14 21:30:38 UTC

Sluice boxes help to give the gold prospector a good quantity. The fundamental idea of a sluice box is that it creates a straight stream.

Canaries

cwmcmullen — 2015-10-14 21:36:14 UTC

Canaries were little birds miners used to test the air quality in coal mines

Mining Helmet

2015-10-15 01:40:06 UTC

A Mining Helmet is a plastic usually yellow or white hat that miners put on their head to keep from getting a bad head injury if a rock or anything fell from the ceiling . A mining helmet from the 1800`s was typically made from metal.

Mining Helmet

2015-10-15 01:48:41 UTC

A Mining Helmet was a hat/metal helmet that miners put on their head to keep from getting a bad head injury. More modern mining helmets are typically made from plastic.

Ore Chute

2015-10-15 01:57:13 UTC

An Ore Chute is a slide that miners used to transfer Ore faster than lugging it down a enormousmountain.