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2 Racial group which used gold to buy freedom 5 Early method of washing gold from streams 6 Earliest human occupants of California 8 Lump of gold 9 Metallic chemical used as an alloy with gold 11 Black slave who purchased his freedom with gold (2 wds) 13 Fish impacted by mining debris 15 Judge who halted hydraulic mining 16 Valuable metal often found with gold 17 Rock in which gold was found 18 Trail followed by forty-niners 20 Metal that attracted people to California 21 City inundated by hydraulic mining debris 23 Group who brought suit against hydraulic miners 24 Mining method using nozzles and hoses 25 Name for 1849 gold seeker (2 wds) |
1 Individual who discovered gold in California 3 Asians who worked in the gold mines 4 Mountain range where gold was mined 7 Gold bars 10 Process of extracting ore from the earth 12 Box on rockers for washing dirt out of gold 14 Belt of gold deposits in Sierra foothills (2 wds) 16 Person on whose land gold was discovered 19 Staple food of California Indians 22 Author of "A Frontier Lady" |