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bar diggings†
Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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gold-mining operations carried out on a bar (def. 1); also, the defined area of such operations.
Quotations
1860
No bar diggings there, but bench and bed-rock diggings.
1897
"Bar diggings" shall mean any part of a river over which the water extends when the water is in its flooded state, and which is not covered at low water.
1960
In "bar diggings" a claim shall be (a) a piece of land not exceeding 250 feet square on any bar which is covered at high water. . . .
1962
They had travelled over the famous Eldorado and Bonanza creeks to bar diggings beyond. . . .