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| | California Gold, Mining Techniques (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | In the same year, technical improvements such as the cradle, the rocker, the long tom, and river damming, basically all known since the Middle Ages, were introduced by the more experienced Mexicans. |
 | | Similar to the long tom, the sluice needed a slope so that the dirt could settle in a basin at the end. |
 | | The water companies´ transition from co-operative to private capitalistic forms of labor organization was part of the power shift from the individual small operator to companies and corporations with large labor forces, leading to conflicting interests between the capital owners and the miners, thus contributing to a formation of class consciousness and antagonisms. |
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