Gold Panning Illustration - Educational Clipart for Mining History #3867384 (License: Personal Use)

The illustration shows a bearded man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and green shirt, kneeling beside a shallow blue stream. He holds a gray metal pan containing water and golden flecks, demonstrating the traditional method of placer mining. Surrounding him are smooth river rocks and sandy banks, evoking the 19th-century gold rush era.

This image is commonly used in educational websites, K-12 lesson plans, museum exhibits, and history articles about the California Gold Rush or mineral exploration. It supports visual learning for topics like geology, resource extraction, and frontier life.