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History question - how much was a "load" when crushing gold ore?
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 645617" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Probably very relevant at the time - in the early days one person required to recover around one ounce of work per week to just cover living costs. So it would have been an indication of whether an area was proving "payable", Trouble is, that the 1800s ranged from lots of rich finds, to people just trying to get by on "poor man's diggings" (eg in the 1890s depression). In the early days you always had the option of providing labour for someone else if you were getting hungry, but the shallow allluvial was gone well prior to the 1870s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 645617, member: 4386"] Probably very relevant at the time - in the early days one person required to recover around one ounce of work per week to just cover living costs. So it would have been an indication of whether an area was proving "payable", Trouble is, that the 1800s ranged from lots of rich finds, to people just trying to get by on "poor man's diggings" (eg in the 1890s depression). In the early days you always had the option of providing labour for someone else if you were getting hungry, but the shallow allluvial was gone well prior to the 1870s. [/QUOTE]
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