Gold mining
Gold minerals
- Gold ore
Placer surface mining
Gold panning
- Gold panning at Bonanza Creek, Yukon, Canada
- Placer gold mining, Korea, ca. 1900
- Man panning for gold in Madagascar
Rockers and sluice mining
- Sluice box
- Riffles with gold dust and gravel
- Rocker box (cradle)
- Rocker box (cradle)
- Beach miners, Nome, Alaska
- Beach miners, Nome, Alaska
- Beach miners, Nome, Alaska
Hydraulic mining
- Hydraulic monitor
- Hydraulic monitor
Underground mining
Technology
- Pan, cradle, Long Tom, and pump
- Steam point, for thawing frozen ground
- Section of a drift mine, showing the use of thawing