OwenT
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I was at the CA state mining and mineral museum in Mariposa (well worth the $4 btw) on Friday where I saw this graph of gold production by year and I was honestly blown away just looking at the first few years. Based on my limited knowledge and the graph, it seems like for those first few years there wasn’t much of any hydraulic or dredge mining so that means that a huge portion of the gold recovered in California was just with shovels, pans, and rockers/sluices. So either during the initial rush there was just an astronomical amount of gold seekers all finding their bit of gold, or they really were just picking nuggets from the rivers left and right. Probably both?
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