DCHP-3

sluicing-box

Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a long box or trough containing riffles (def. 2) by means of which gold is separated from gravel. [See picture at sluice-box.]

See: riffle ((n.))(def. 2),sluice-box(and picture)

Quotations

1897
The boat was hauled up on a bar, her engines detached from the wheels, and made to drive a set of pumps manufactured on the ground, which supplied water for a set of sluicing boxes.
1909
The riffles of his sluicing-box were choked with speckled earth,/And night and day he worked that lay for all that he was worth.