dry diggings†

Placer Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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gold claims away from the bed of a stream.

Quotations

1858

These are in fact a species of dry diggings, but it is beyond doubt that the other kind of dry diggings exist plentifully in the north.

1897

"Dry diggings" shall mean any mine over which a river never extends.

1960

In "dry diggings" a claim shall be 250 feet square.