DCHP-3

winter work

Placer Mining, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the recovery of gold- or platinum-bearing gravel through burning (def. 3) and drifting.

See: burning(def. 3)

Quotations

1898
Prospects and "winter work" indicate that there are on said three creeks about thirty other claims which will yield an average of $35 per cubic yard of the dirt handled in a summer cut thirty feet wide in the richest portion of the deposit.
1898
He has bought No. 25 above on Bonanza, and will direct the winter work and add it to the gold dust producers.