Washing Gold

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They take the gravel and dirt to the sides of the streams, and roll it about in wooden bowls. After a while there is nothing but the gold and the gravel. The miners throw the gravel away handful by handful.

Keywords

gold dust river mining

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Mining, Miscellaneous South American Illustrations

Source

Frank G. Carpenter Carpenter's Geographical Reader: South America (New York, NY: American Book Company, 1915)

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