We worked at the well from sunrise until sunset, hauling equipment up and down the valley, troweling, hoisting buckets, shaking screens.

A Dawson jeweller fashioned a miner's hoisting bucket out of a piece of ivory and filled it with miniature gold nuggets.

In later years the same principal was used for the "super hoist" which has a hoisting bucket that can carry about 200 litres (44 gallons) of opal bearing claystone each time it is operated.

Feats of Engineering At night on a floodlit bridge in Bihar, a chain of women moved in graceful tandem, hoisting buckets of cement onto their head and hurrying to pour before it hardened.