I also need a couple of different ways they found and mined the gold.
In the early days of any gold rush, miners go to the creeks and pan for gold. They get a shovelful of gravel/sand and throw it in their mining pan and swish it with water. The heavy gold falls to the bottom as the gravel is washed away. Then within a short time two or three miners would get together and build a sluice box or rocker - this is just like panning except it's a long shoot with little boards nailed to the bottom - looks like a chicken ladder. As the gravel and sand is washed down the sluice, the miner rocks the sluice box and the gold settles out behind the little boards in the chicken ladder. These low-tech ways of getting gold out of the creek are always the first techniques to be used. But all the time time the miners are looking around for the source of the gold which is in the creek - when they find that, then they begin mining through hard rock following the color in the rock.
