The men on the Australian gold fields wore loose-fitting, comfortable clothes. They had long trousers held up with a belt, rope or braces. They tended to wear longer sleeved shirts if they were out in the sun, or sometimes they would strip off their shirts when the heat became unbearable - as it often did.

The miners' clothing depended on their ethnic group. Standard clothing for many of European ethnicity was just loose-fitting trousers and shirt, with strong boots. The Chinese wore the clothing of their culture. Many times, miners' clothing may have become quite threadbare: they could not afford new clothing because tailors and/or other suppliers of clothing would chage over-inflated prices, knowing that the rules of supply and demand would dictate how much they could charge. Miners did not want to leave the prospect of "striking it rich" to take a coach all the way to Sydney or melbourne, so suppliers of goods on the goldfields had a monopoly.

No one person. Gold is rare and useful- the rarity makes it expensive. If there was gold sitting around everywhere, it would not be expensive.

It depends on various measures: 1. how much land you have to disrupt, 2. the size of the rocks and if you are crushing them... etc...

Reef gold: this gold will become smoother the further away it is from the source, the source being the reef. If the gold is jagged in appearance then the gold source is near!

Alluvial gold, river gold, placer gold: this gold will reduce in quantity the further away it is from the mother lode.

If your recovering kilograms of alluvial gold in one spot, then you are on the gold!

Next trick is to find the reef gold that deposited the alluvial gold!

Aircraft gold reclamation comes from the CPU's within the computer systems. Other than that, I can only imagine that they are trying to look for lost jewelry etc...

Hawaii is 100% volcanic material and fairly 'young' geographically speaking. Therefore, sorry to say, there are no known gold deposits in or on the Island State.

All forms have value as silver metal, but coins may have additional value as a collector's item. Their worth, weight and purity is already known and does not need verification.

hit it with a hammer: if it shatters its fools gold, if it flattens it is probably gold.

5-5-11>> Assuming the coin is circulated and has no mintmark, the 1899 Liberty Head Eagle is a common date. For an accurate assessment of value the coin needs to be seen and graded. Most coins show heavy wear. In general retail values for circulated coins are $880.00-$980.00. Values are a market average and only for coins in collectible condition, coins that are bent, corroded, scratched, used as jewelery or have been cleaned have far less value if any to a collector or dealer.

Classifier Sieves are available in many different "Mesh" Sizes. These sizes are based on the holes per square inch. A size 8 would have 8 holes per square inch, and a size 20 would have 20 holes per square inch.

These are used to separate different sizes of dirt from each other.

Different types of prospecting equipment processes different mesh sizes of dirt.

Melt it!

The simplest test is physical: hit it with a hammer, if it flattens it is gold, if it shatters it is fools gold.

But you wanted a chemical test. Try pouring a strong acid over it, if nothing happens it is gold, if it smells of rotten eggs it is fools gold.

There are numerous places where beginners can pan for gold in California. However most are well known and a beginner might have problems finding enough gold to make it interesting. Do you happen to know a friend that has a gold claim that he would let you pan on ?

The main thing as a beginner you need is to get experience and practice using your gold pan and learning to "read the river" to realize where the best/most likely places would be to prospect for gold. Ask around to see if anyone knows a "spot" they poke around looking for gold at, maybe they can take you there.

Keep in mind there is no one "best place." Anywhere you find paying amounts of gold is a good enough place to keep looking for more. You never know, one day you may hit a pocket that someone else missed.

Some returned home, some stayed on and found that the best way to make gold was by selling supplies to the prospectors on their way to the gold fields.

Gold is a heavy ductile metal and gold is an Element. Fools gold is actually Iron Pyrite and is brittle and light compared to gold. Gold has a specific gravity around 19 while fools gold (iron pyrite) has a specific gravity of 4.95 to 5.10.

Fools gold is harder than gold. The hardness of Fools gold is 6 to 6.5 while Gold is softer and has a hardness of 2.5 on the Moh's scale of hardness.

When hammered gold will flatten while other yellow minerals break

Fools Gold (Iron Pyrite) is a sulfide of iron,with a metallic appearance and occurs either as distinct cubical crystals or in massive crystalline forms.Pyrite is slightly harder than steel and cannot be scratched with a knife while gold is much softer than steel and can easily be scratched with a knife.

Pyrite emits sulfur when heated...gold does not.

There are many differences between Fools Gold and Gold, that is why "fools gold" got its name.

Hydraulic mining used a water cannon (called a monitor) to wash the hillside down and into a huge sluice box which separated the Gold from the dirt and gravel.

It very much depends on what type of gold mining you are doing. There is Placer mining, hard rock mining, high banking and dry desert mining, among others.

Most miners begin with a Gold pan and prospect along rivers and streams that are known as having produced gold in the past.

You'll want to prospect in cracks and crevices. Dig out the sand and gravel with a spoon or ice pick. Break the crack open with a pry bar and pan the contents of the crack. The object is to get top the bottom of the crack by any means.

Also you will want to pan behind large boulders and pieces of bedrock. Look for moss and grass roots. In time you will learn where the best spots will be, That is called "reading the river".

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A prospector was and continues to be someone who explores for minerals or other valuable resources. This may be for profit or as a hobby. A prospector differs from a miner in that a prospector seeks out new deposits whereas a miner extracts minerals from existing deposits. Prospectors, past and present, rely upon an understanding of geological formations and mineral compositions to predict the location of possible deposits. Modern prospectors also use electronics such as metal detectors, satellite imagery, and other scientific instruments to determine the chemical composition of an area. Prospectors then employ a variety of sampling methods to determine the profitability of a deposit. If profitable, they may file a claim and begin extracting the minerals as miners.

Gold is a metal, not a mineral.

Mostly the old guys began by hearing a story of a place that had gold and they headed for that place with only a pan and a pair of tweezers and a mason jar or a small bottle. if they were lucky ( and that's' a big IF ) they would pan for gold and find a little bit and would stake a small claim and hang out there for awhile and find enough to make a little bit of money. they would usually hide the gold they had found in a place far enough from them that "if they got jumped" by someone, they could come back and get their findings. (if they were alive)......so they had the pan and the tweezers and the bottle and maybe a shovel.......So those were the main tools.....a prospector might have 20 or 30 places they would go to during a season to search for gold, this was due to seasonal flooding,.....The seasonal floods were important you see because a river or stream would possibly go dry and a porspector would have to go downstream to find flowing water,.....this meant he had to go to a lower point in a valley or on a river system which meant he was more vulnerable to either Indians or other people....which was not exactly the thing a prospector wanted to do.....so a good season meant that a good snow happened and melt waters would provide him a good water flow for decent erosion of riverbeds or streams and that he could prospect upstream and away from other folks and be out of sight and stay safe and have a decent reward for his labors....."IF" he was smart and lucky to boot. And a good prospector "never brought all his labor to town", there was some proper eitiquette for prospecting, the first rule being, "Never ever let anyone know what you've found"...not even the assay officer because that officer never kept his mouth shut, he worked for the government right?....yeah right!.....he worked for the highest bidder is who he worked for, you bring your gold to town?....you ride out and someone rides out right behind you and you can never go back to your claims again without company....you have to be smart and you have to be careful....so you wait til retirement day to cash in.....so Prospecting is it's own demon and you have to "very carefully",tangle with it.

Nathan

A prospector is someone who explores for minerals or other valuable resources for profit or sometimes just as a hobby.

Prospecting involves physical labor looking for any trace of the sought after mineral.