I see videos of gold miners using sluices and only collecting little flakes and being satisfied so I’m curious to know what changed either in society or economically.
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Gold sluicing or panning isn’t usually how gold is produced, but a way of finding gold. It’s highly unlikely that there were the right geological conditions for elemental gold to come together, but only in a small mass (eg a handful of gold flakes), and for that to have come to the surface to be washed downriver at the exact time someone is sluicing for gold.
If you find gold flakes in a river, it is an indicator that a larger source of gold is/was nearby, shedding gold flakes through erosion. You can either try to find and mine it yourself, or you (a prospector) can simply take the flake as evidence that gold can be found in the area and sell that knowledge to a miner.
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