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Forty-niners needed to know the difference between GOLD and PYRITE.

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she 4th graders we've learned that there are several methods used to find the gold they need a shovel and pick and some of the methods they would use down at River was to be able to wash rocks with water to get the gold out some of the gold pieces were very small but you to become a millionaire and some weren't real goal some of it was pyrite so you had to be an expert on knowing what is pyrite and what is gold some research on those two different Metals some of the tools that they used very useful and it didn't always start being successful like anything it's a developed we talked about that horn spoon just using a horn and then testing the waters and evolving into a Minor's pan that had a strainer and then have ripples on the side that could catch the goal so it wasn't just like a regular pie 10 like my silly one over here that would just look the gold Fallout but you needed to be able to capture it so she has a picture of a cradle that was one of the things they used and then they evolve into a long time so that's a picture of a long time so they needed wood to build that here's a primary source picture of one of people using that steak with him prescribe safe with all supplies you needed so if you look at the whole entire poster that's hanging in my kitchen right now she's got the right clothes on he's got foods that are tall and protective he's got denim jeans Justin burned by Levi Strauss in 1849 for the miners she's got his poke filled with his Goldust we hope he's got a letter belt that's nice and strong she's got a long sleeve his arms protected he's got his hand because he actually probably has injured his hand digging around he is wearing a bandana that can be used keeping the sun off of his pad for wiping off the sweat if he gets bit by a snake he could make a trip out of it she's got a wide brim hat keep the shade or the Sun how to say since going to shade him or keep him warm in the winter I'm sure he didn't have a hat and clothes and shoes like this when he lived in the east in the city but this is what a minor of 49ers clothes would look like we talked about after they get their their gold they have to go to the assay office and that is where is assessed its measured and weighed and they see if it was real or if it was pyrite Fool's Gold what's the difference between pyrite and fool's gold and we're going to find out that there are four different methods of testing it out in the field you can smash it with a hammer to look for it at the riverbank you can I've got my pictures off a lot do the smash test you can do the hammer test you can do the light s l y e which is a is that a chemical or you could do the acid test so to be a miner you can only do so much out there at the river then you got to take it into the app and have an abscessed we're going to be learning more about that in the next few days see you later

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