wash-up

Placer Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

the process by which gold is recovered by cleaning the riffles, sluice-boxes, etc. after gravel is washed.

Quotations

1897

No good mine ever opened not barring the famous Bloomfield, with its record of $115,000 in a single washup is the equal of this property.

1900

So, after the wash-up he weighed in a couple of hundred pounds of dust. . . .

2n.

the quantity of gold obtained by this process.

1869

On Rock creek the Flume Co. had reached flood ground again, and expected a large wash-up.