Usually metal and wood. The blade is made of metal - but the handle is usually wood as it absorbs energy when the tool is being used.
Typically, wood and steel. Sometimes, polycarbon or fiberglass might be used in place of wood for the handle.
Depends which pick axe it is.
A pickaxe was used in mining to break up and loosen hard rock or ore so that it could be easily removed. Miners would use the pickaxe to chip away at the rock face, making it easier to extract valuable minerals like gold, silver, or coal. The pickaxe was a fundamental tool for miners in both underground and surface mining operations.
pick axes and shovels
you will need an Iron pick axe, stone or wooden pick axes do not work.
They used: pick axes, spades, pans and cradles.
now days they use gold detectors and pick axes. Back in the days they used pans (only in the water, axes and shovels.)
They used: pick axes, spades, pans and cradles.
The Irish immigrant diggers used shovels and pick axes.
A medieval biller made axes.
Most of these are made out of steel and have wood handles.
Wooden handles and hardened steel axe head.
Wooden handles and hardened steel axe head.