Gold rush

Goldrush

Something that we did yesterday was watcha video called hunters gold and another video-based in shantytown in Greymouth. It showed us how people used to mine for gold. I don't know much about this so I will add to this. ( Gold mining or Discrimination ) 

Ok so now that I know something more about gold mining and discrimination let me explain.

Gold mining was something that people used to do around 1852. People from all over the world came to New Zealand to mine for gold. People used metal pans and put the pan underwater collecting dirt from the bottom of it. They then shook the pan to get all of the water and dirt and the stone and usually there would be gold at the bottom of the pan. A few years later big machines were made called sluices which could take down whole mountain slides. Using a pan was then forgotten.

Discrimination is when someone judges you by the way you look, your race, your religion, gender, age, disability, etc. This came in when the Chinese people came to Nz. Most of the Chinese people couldn't speak English and prefered to have their houses built away from all the other miners. They did often have their own shops run by their own people. Some Chinese miners were rewarded gold while others were left poor and far away from a home they would never see again.