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fine gold†
Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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tiny particles of gold.
Quotations
1859
The coldness of the water thickens the quicksilver so much as to prevent full half of the fine gold being taken up or amalgamated as it would be when the weather is warm.
1935
. . . these Orientals being admitted experts at catching fine gold on claims that more impatient and less skilful whites abandoned in contempt.