This slide shows the more capital intensive gold workings in the 1880s using pressure streams of water to loosen placer gold bearing gravel. This was one of the later stages of placer gold mining, long after the easily accessible sand bars had been exhausted. Note the height of the gravel cliffs behind the operation. The gold rush was never a great money maker for the majority of prospectors. Of those who remained to labour in this type of operation, many were Chinese.
