
Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know
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What's Happened to the Chinese Miners in the Gold Rush?
Migrants from the southern coast, ol coastalo inces of late ching china. These are prosperous, outward looking ar young men who are seeking new opportunities around the world. I think there's a myth too that they tend to be kind of contracted, single men and sometimes dismissively called coolie labor. They're working companies, work very cellaboratly together. So it's chinese miners who bring the long tom which is a large soot of sluice box with a shoot at one end where you pour the water and gravel down in a can of filter or riddle at the other. And theyve become commonplace across gold fields without their largely move with the
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