Gold pan

Gold pan

British Columbia
Gold Rush
mining
pan
tool
machinery

A rusted gold sifting pan. Equipment used in sifting gold by hand. Tools such as the gold pan allowed gold prospectors to sift for gold on their own, without the need for a team to operate large machinery. It also allowed prospectors to test the lucrativeness of a potential gold mining claim before committing to it by moving in machinery and men. This rusted pan, clearly out of use for some time, was found in 1975 at the historic site of Cottonwood House, in the town of Barkerville on the Gold Rush Trail in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. The sifting pan the BC gold rush present themes of European colonisation and indigenous displacement in the province and opportunities for, not only large companies with heavy expensive machinery, but also individuals to migrate to gold mining towns, such as Barkerville, with the hope of profiting, but on a smaller scale.

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Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
Beautiful British Columbia magazine slide albums

http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/cottonwood-house-old-gold-pan

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Sebastian Jones

Royal British Columbia Museum Archives
Beautiful British Columbia magazine slide albums
http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/cottonwood-house-old-gold-pan
Item I-05231 - Cottonwood House, old gold pan.

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Material object

20th century British Columbia