"A single monitor [water cannon] with an eight-inch nozzle like ... On the heels of the gold rush, however, had come other settlers. As early as 1873, downstream farmers began to protest the ...

Roughly 80 miles southwest of Puerto Maldonado, the gold rush boomtown of Huepetuhe lies ... we hear the roar of engines, powering water cannons and dredge siphons. The stench of forest burned ...

In a significant development for Gold Rush fans, Rick Ness’ mining ... Ness employed a 40-year-old hydraulic cannon, known as a monitor, to pump water and dilute the dense slurry.

Pummeling storms over the winter, along with copious spring snowmelt, have created optimal conditions for gold to emerge ... hillsides with powerful water cannons. The human-made mudslides ...

In California, miners used powerful water cannons to wash away the hillsides ... and gravel. The Gold Rush is “presented as a sort of windfall adventure, where everybody goes and everybody ...

On a cold January morning in 1848, James Marshall was busy building a lumber mill in northern California. to process timber destined for the nearby towns of Sacramento and San Francisco.