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Placer Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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gold-bearing gravel.

See: pay dirt(def. 1)

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1897

What is known as "pay gravel" lies below the bottom of the creeks, and is obtained by sinking a shaft through the frozen ice, mud and debris to the bed-rock, where the richest gravel is encountered.

1898

He has prospected several buckets of pay gravel which went $21.