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Excerpt from The Story of River Gold and Its Recovery: The Demand for Gold; Origin of River Gold; British Columbia's Wealth in River Gold; The World's Gold Production; Methods Employed in Recovering Gold; Reminiscences of the Gold Fields When the. Pan has been filled with gravel or whatever soil was in the bedrock, it would be taken to a convenient pool, stream or even tub, and dipped into the water in such a man ner as to take up sufficient water to sluice off the heavier material. This was then thrown out. The process was repeated until nothing remain cd in the pan except a little fine sand sparkling with particles of gold. This was carefully dried in an iron vessel and the sand blown away, leaving the pure gold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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