slum

[shortening of slumgullion, q.v.]

Placer Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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thick slippery mud, or gumbo, found in the creek valleys of the B.C. interior.

Quotations

1866

On prospeckin' I still was bent ;/Had shares in a' the kintra side,/In shafts gaun' doon thro' slum and slide. . . .

1870

At the depth of three feet he struck a bed of dry slum, nine feet thick.

1958

The creek had never been properly bottomed and the E. Edens . . . sank a shaft ninety feet only to hit slum.