THE EQUIPMENT AND MACHINES THE CARIBOO GOLD RUSH
The basic tool of the solitary miner was the gold pan, supplemented at times by a rocker. Once miners started to band together, they would build other equipment such as sluice boxes, and flumes. Tunnels and shafts often had to be constructed to get at the gold deep in the ground. However, the basic principle of separating the quot;goldquot; from the quot;dirtquot; relied on the fact that the gold was heavier than anything else.