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Gold rush tools
During the time of the Australian gold rush there were many miners who came to Australia for just gold. Those miners needed proper equipment, tools and methods.

Gold panning
Gold panning is the easiest and cheapest way to find gold. Firstly you put dirt into the pan; and then you pour water into the pan. Afterwards you swirl the muddy water into circles. Then you pour the muddy water out and the gold would precipitate at the bottom.

The cradle
The cradle or rocker is another simple way of doing things. Like panning you had to put dirt into it. Then you must pour water and rock it like a real cradle so the dirt and gold come off each other. Then, the water will come out of the cradle and the gold would be lying at the bottom.

pickaxe
The pickaxe is a tool used to dig through hard surfaces. The un-pointy flat part is just there to make ease of use. The sharp bit is the part which pierces the surface and goes through the rocks.

shovel
The shovel is the most basic tool to use. Not just in the gold rush did people use is it but even today we use them for digging holes for our gardening. Children use it to build sand castles. In the gold rush they used it for digging holes

Windlass
The windlass is a tool for moving dirt down and up massive shafts. It worked exactly like a well.

Long Tom
Long tom is exactly used like a cradle except it is much bigger and needs 6 to 8 miners to operate it.

stamp mill
Stamp mills were used for crushing ore. They were also used for writing books in the renascence period