This video describes the history of events that lead to the California Gold Rush and Pikes Peak Gold Rush in Colorado. It details geological methods and gold recovery tools the old prospectors and miners used to locate and extract gold and other precious metals. This video also details various geological processes involved in depositing gold in placer type gold deposits, to include rivers, streams, bedrock, rivers, sand and gravel beds.

Some of the gold finding and recovery methods described in this video include: Placer Mining, Drift and Coyote Mining, Faults and Igneous Intrusions, Locating Lode Gold Deposits (sources of gold), Quartz Rock Veins, Rock Brecciation, Olivine Mineral, Hematite minerals and uses among Native Americans to make red pigment for pictographs, painting faces and decorating teepees. Origins of phrases such as; Gold Rides an Iron Horse, Gold Wears an Iron Hat and Fool's Gold.

Most of the information I've learned about "Miners Lore" and the adventures of 1800's prospectors and gold miners in the old west, has come from books found in my local public libraries. Libraries are a great place to learn about this wonderful and colorful part of our history. If you find a book you are interested in reading and your library does not have it, usually they have a program where they borrow the book from another library on your behalf for free. Take advantage of these amazing programs. The older books are the best and full of colorful tidbits of history that has been almost forgotten with the passing of time.

Here is a good link to information about fissures and faults in the earth - https://geoscience.blog/what-are-fiss...

Here is a good link to information about breccia in rocks - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Here is a good link to information about Olivine - https://geology.com/minerals/olivine....

This is a link that will explain the methods ancient people, to include American Indians, used to make different colored pigments to create pictographs, rock art, cave paintings and face and hair paint. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre

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