USA HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What tool was useful if you were working with more than one prospector to find gold?
A
A pan
B
A pickaxe
C
A rocker
D
A bucket
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -… pan was the rocker, or cradle, named for its resemblance to a child’s cradle. As it was rocked, it sifted large quantities of ore.

Detailed explanation-2: -A gold metal detector will make your job a hundred times more straightforward than sifting through soil and sand with a gold pan or strainer. Run the waterproof metal detector like the ATX Deepseeker found on Prospectors Patch’s shop through a lake, stream, or dry land, and you’ll be surprised to see what you’ll find.

Detailed explanation-3: -A diggers’ toolkit included a wide tin pan, pick axes, spades, shovels, a wheelbarrow, felling axes, trowels, iron wedges, crowbars, metal buckets and a cradle. Miners purchased these tools from store keepers or exhausted diggers leaving the goldfields.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shovels, Picks, Rakes, Crevice Tools, Scoops and more must have tools for gold prospecting and recreational mining and gem hunting.

Detailed explanation-5: -GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING Five major geophysical methods-magnetic, gravimetric, electrical, radiometric, and seismic-are successfully utilized in mineral exploration. Some of these methods require complex and costly instruments and highly trained operators. Others, however, are relatively simple and inexpensive.

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