Hill’s Bar, one of the richest gold bearing gravel bars in the world, is located in the Fraser River Canyon, in British Columbia, Canada. Simon Fraser explored the river canyon, later named after him, in 1808, but until his death he had no idea what he had discovered. Hill’s Bar was also the name of nearby gold […]
One of the most popular pieces of equipment used during gold rush times in XIX century was a rocker box, sometimes called a cradle. Collier’s New Encyclopedia from 1921 defines this device as a mechanical contrivance used in placer mining, consisting of a box on rockers and moved by hand, used for washing out the gold-bearing soil. Rocker […]
