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sluicing
Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the action or practice of separating gold from gravel in a sluice-box.
See: sluice-box
Quotations
1859
The unusual dry weather this summer has so shrunk the smaller streams that sluicing in several places has been suspended and the miners are now actually praying for rain.
1913
. . . Quartz Creek, up which he went a day and a half, where he put up a dam to raise water for sluicing. . . .