Gold Assigment
Gold Rush
Life in the goldfields
When the gold rush began, many people left their jobs to find a fortune on the gold fields. Shops closed down for there was no one in the towns to work in them, nor any people to buy the products sold, schools had to close down because there were no one to teach the children and ships in the harbours lay empty as the crew and passengers were on their way to the gold fields.
Different types of minning
There are two types of mining there is the shaft and Alluvail they are the places that you can mine at.Shaft mining takes place under the surface of the earth. They dig holes under ground to fine gold.
Alluavil is when they chip gold under rocks or heavy things in the goldfields.
Tools
Pan
The first gold pans used in Australia were just frying pans without handles! Shaking the pan gently through water seperates dirt and rocks.
Cradle
The cradle seperates the clay and gravel from the gold it cleans the gold and washes the gold clean from the clay.
Windlass
The windlass helps lift heavy buckets and dirt, clay and they even help lift gold so they can keep it safe.
The Chinese on the goldfields
Chinese
The Chinese on the goldfields were treated very unfairly they won't even allowed to stay in the same camp as the Australian people.Because they were different for the Australians.
Women in the goldfields
Women in the goldfields