Which of the following is an accurate description of life in a gold mining town in the mid-1800s?

A) Mining camps were pleasant, comfortable places for miners and their families to live.
B) Mining camps were often rough and unsanitary places; miners regularly encountered disease and loneliness.
C) Mining camps generally split up the miners, depending on their job rank, which created tension.
D) Mining camps provided a high standard of living for the miners, since the camps were financed by all the gold.