15 Historic Photographs of the Hydraulic Gold Miners in
27/8/2018#0183;#32;Hydraulic mining became the primary way to recover large amounts of gold by the late1800s. While normal placer mining techniques like panning and sluicing worked well in the rivers, there were many areas with ancient river gravels that were high above the current water flow. These could only be mined profitably with hydraulic mining. Water []