What were two tools used to collect gold of the forty niners?

Answer 1

Diggers in the gold rush used the following equipment to find gold:

• Panning involved the use of a solid pan.
• Cradling involved a wooden box loosely resembling a cradle, which would separate the gold from the soil.
• Picks were used to fossick among rocks and mullock heaps.
• Sieves were like a pan but with a mesh base through which the water would drain, to help separate gold from similar sized particles.
• Windlass helped in shaft-mining.
• A poppet head and winch was a larger version of the windlass. Poppet heads stood over deep mining shafts.
• Stamper batteries were large steam-driven machines, which were used to crush the quartz in order to extract gold.

Other tools included utensils for digging and carrying gold-bearing soil. They included basic equipment for survival, for constructing some sort of shelter, or simple protection. These included:

• shovel
• pick
• rope
• saw
• axe
• pick
• wheelbarrow
• knife
• gun
• knife
• scales
• bucket

Answer 2

In the Australian gold rush the equipment used is a cradle and pans. Now time we dig down into the hard earth and we use big trucks.