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Yes, by hand back then. When you found what you thought was any good you put it in a bucket, dragged it back to the shaft winched it up and later sifted thru it. [I forget the lingo for it all at the moment] No pay, just what you found. You could lease mines then. It's all big business there...

I worked in an Opal mine like this one for a while once when I had no tree work. 30" shaft, ladder down 70ft, then crawl to the work spot. I don't go anywhere I can't see the sky now. :) <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie"...