Peasants were armed with axes, pickaxes, rakes and scythes. Tools used were still fairly primitive, such as sledgehammers, chisels, pickaxes, crowbars and drill rods. In traditional surface and underground mining, hammers and chisels with pickaxes and shovels are used. The work would have been done using pickaxes, shovels and wheelbarrows. In late June, Islamists attacked several more sites in Timbuktu with pickaxes and shovels. Cobalt mining was done with the use of wheelbarrows, pickaxes, hand steel and dynamite. Soldiers scouted nearby farms and villages for pickaxes, spades and other implements. They did not have guns; they had axes, pickaxes, factory tools and bottles of acid. During the operation, a hoard of weapons including knives, pickaxes, bars and clubs were found. The blocks were presumably quarried by using pickaxes to create channels. Prospecting pickaxes are usually equipped with a triangular head, with a very sharp point. Pickaxes are commonly carried by Pioneer Sergeants in the British Army. Gold Challenge tokens depict a Gold Nugget placed in front of two criss-crossing pickaxes. They then dragged the fields with pickaxes. Sometimes passages are blocked by ice blocks which can broken by using up collectable pickaxes.