Successful mining took time and capital, particularly once most of the timber around the Klondike had been cut down. A realistic mining operation required $1,500  for wood to be burned to melt the ground, along with around $1,000  to construct a dam, $1,500  for ditches and up to $600  for sluice boxes, a total of $4,600. The attraction of the Klondike to a prospector, however, was that when gold was found, it was often highly concentrated. Some of the creeks in the Klondike were fifteen times richer in gold than those in California, and richer still than those in South Africa. In just two years, for example, $230,000  worth of gold was brought up from claim 29 on the Eldorado Creek.

Question: How many different expenses are required for the mining operation?
Answer: 4

Question: What all is needed to be purchased to have a function mining operation?
Answer: wood

Question: Where was gold more prevalent
Answer: Klondike

Question: How many dollars on average was spent for construction of dams and ditches by the average prospector for a mining operation in the Klondike?
Answer: 2500

Question: Which would cost more, constructing a dam or buying sluice boxes?
Answer: constructing a dam

Question: Which would cost more, constructing a dam or creating ditches?
Answer: creating ditches

Question: Which would cost more, creating ditches or buying sluice boxes?
Answer: creating ditches

Question: Would the total cost of a realistic mining operation be more or less than 5000 dollars?
Answer: less than 5000

Question: How many dollars would be required to construct a dam and build ditches combined?
Answer: 2500

Question: How many dollars would be required to buy sluice boxes and build ditches combined?
Answer: 2100

Question: Which cost more, sluice boxes or ditches?
Answer: ditches

Question: How many more dollars was it to construct a ditch than a dam?
Answer: 500

Question: How many operations cost the same price?
Answer: 2

Question: Where was the richest area for gold, Klondike, California or South Africa?
Answer: Klondike

Question: For successful mining how many dollars were needed to be spent to set up the wood, the dam and the ditches?
Answer: 4000

Question: What does a minig operation require?
Answer: wood

Question: What all did a realistic mining operation require?
Answer: wood

Question: How many more dollars did a realistic mining operation require for wood than for sluice boxes?
Answer: 900

Question: How many more dollars did a realistic mining operation require for ditches than for sluice boxes?
Answer: 900

Question: How many more dollars did a realistic mining operation require for ditches than to construct a dam?
Answer: 500