Keys to History

"Clean-up" gold consists of the fine flakes and gold dust that remain when the larger pieces and nuggets have been recovered. Two miners are in their tent weighing gold on a set of scales, with a gold pan in the foreground and a bottle of liquor on the table in the background. Mining was hard work, so few miners worked alone; the vast majority had one or more partners. The Klondike Fever, Pierrre Berton's famous book on the gold rush, gives accounts of partners who got so angry with each other that they divided up all their belongings, even sawing their boat in half.

Source : Off to the Klondike! The Search for Gold [Web tour], by William R. Morrison, University of Northern British Columbia (see Links)