"Gold" (a yellow metal) was the Bitcoin of its time. You can still find the scars of the mechanized search for the stuff all over California. And it's also the reason the ocean right outside the Golden Gate is so shallow it's called the "potato patch"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_mining#California_Gold_Rush …
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Thank you for sharing that fascinating historical information and how that relates to what we can see in this video clip. If you have more info about this - please do share more (perhaps a link). Thanks!
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"Hydraulic mining California" is a good search string for this stuff. I found this short KQED clip on YouTube that gives a lot of the history:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV547grgDL4 …
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I thought it was all Ag run-off
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Turns out it’s the Au runoff
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1860 is a long time ago. Gunk tend to settle over time. How sure are we that’s not today’s effluent?
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Because it's still coming down the rivers. This gunk *has* settled, it's the muddy bottom of the bay.
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