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Placer Mining, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1958
Each pinch of dust was one dollar and it was pure, whereas in other gold everything above a pinger--that is, everything above something that pinged in the pan--was coarse gold, and a lot of this coarse gold had hidden quartz in it. So a thousand in dust was the real McCoy.