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Hydraulic gold mining

Hydraulic gold mining near Dutch Flat, California, Summary Photograph shows men using hydraulic equipment to wash gold from mountains near Dutch Flat, California. Contributor Names Russell, Andrew J., photographer
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Hydraulic riffles | Gold Rush Wiki

Hydraulic riffles were first developed in New Zealand as far as I know. I first encountered them on a floating wash plant when I was doing a job there in 1989. Hydraulic riffles are a system of riffles that have a built in manifold that injects water into the gold recovery mats, and fluidizes the gravel that is retained in a specially designed deep riffle system for a fluidized bed that ...
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Yuba Goldfields, California

Mining companies moved from the valley floor into the Sierra Nevada foothills, where miners blasted gravel hillsides with highpressure jets of water—a process called hydraulic mining. After the miners extracted gold in long wooden sluices, they dumped the gravel back into the mountain valleys.
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ArchiveGrid : Hydraulic placer mining class

View of a Public Works Administration hydraulic gold mining class, in Denver, Colorado; shows men with a rocker sluice and gold pans. One wears high boots, another smokes a cigarette. Title supplied. Formerly F4716. Image File: ZZR.
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Detecting gold at California's old hydraulic mines

The area where I was detecting is a loion that had been ground sluiced in the old days. Ground sluicing is basically a small scale, low pressure form of Hydraulic mining. In California, hydraulic mines have been a large source of gold to prospectors armed with metal detectors. It is not uncommon that small patches of bedrock or crevices in ...
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More about hydraulic mining, including some corrections ...

Sep 17, 2010 · For him, hydraulic mining is a method and placer describes a type of gold deposit including both recent and ancient riverbeds. (Wilson, page 152) Another authoritative writer, Waldemar Lindgren, used "placer" in the same way (and "pay streak" also). In 1911 the Geological Survey published his opus, The Tertiary Gravels of the ...
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Hydraulic mining: Extensively used for gold mining in past, limited use now: Downstream sedimentation often a major problem; gravelly materials difficult to reclaim: Strip mining and mountaintop removal: Used extensively in hilly terrain, such as Appalachia, for coal extraction, more limited use in West and Midwest:
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Historical Reading List: The California Gold Rush

May 29, 2017 · Hydraulic Mining in California, Bowie, Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol. 6, (May), pp. 27100, (1877). This article presents a detailed description of the hydraulic mining of gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
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Nov 29, 2016 · Gold mining evolved from hydraulic mining of unconsolidated placer deposits in the early days of the Gold Rush, to underground mining of hardrock deposits, and finally to largescale dredging of lowgrade gravel deposits, which in many areas included the tailings from upstream hydraulic mines. By the mid1850s, in areas with sufficient surface ...
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Environmental Impact in the Gold Rush Era — Calisphere

The Gold Rush, positive for California in so many ways, had a devastating effect on the state's environment. Many of these problems were directly related to goldmining technology. The process of hydraulic mining, which became popular in the 1850s, caused irreparable environmental destruction. Two images show California's largest hydraulic mine ...
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Hydraulic gold mining: Hirshman's Pond and Diggin's ...

Sep 01, 2004 · Hydraulic gold mining is defined by Harry L. Wells in his "History of Nevada County, California," 1880, as: "washing down the auriferous hills of the gravel range by directing a powerful stream of water against the bank, the dirt and rocks being carried by the water through a deep cut or tunnel in which is set a system of flumes or sluices (riffles) for ching the gold, being finally ...
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Chinese mining in Oregon

Hydraulic Mining. Hydraulic mining for gold first developed in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The method required largecapacity ditches, built into hillsides, to bring water diverted from a distant stream to a mine. Several hundred feet above the area to be mined (called the washing pit), the water's highvolume flow was diverted into large ...
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Hydraulic mining

Hydraulic mining Last updated October 03, 2020 A miner using a hydraulic jet to mine for gold in California, from The Century Magazine January 1883. Hydraulic mining is a form of mining that uses highpressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment. [1] In the placer mining of gold or tin, the resulting watersediment slurry is directed through sluice boxes to remove the gold.
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Cat unleashes new hydraulic mining shovel

Jun 30, 2020 · Cat unleashes new hydraulic mining shovel. 600t class behemoth offers payload of 61t per pass along with durability, fuel efficiency and operator comfort. The next generation Cat 6060 hydraulic mining shovel features multiple design enhancements and new components that advance machine performance, durability, serviceability and operator comfort.
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Giant Gold Machines Hydraulic Mining. A n ancient northern California river once laid down an immense bed of goldbearing gravel. There had to be an easy way of getting down to the ancient streambeds now buried in the mountains. There was: hydraulic mining. W ater was diverted into ditches and wooden flumes at high elevations, and gravity did ...
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Mining began in this area in the early 1850s and was still active in 1959, though on a muchreduced scale. Placer mining was formerly done on a largescale by hydraulic operations, but large dragline dredges have supplanted the hydraulic giants. The La Grange mine near Weaverville was the largest hydraulic mine in this area. Production of gold ...
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Sep 17, 2010 · For him, hydraulic mining is a method and placer describes a type of gold deposit including both recent and ancient riverbeds. (Wilson, page 152) Another authoritative writer, Waldemar Lindgren, used "placer" in the same way (and "pay streak" also). In 1911 the Geological Survey published his opus, The Tertiary Gravels of the ...