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This miner is standing in a flume, which is part of a sluice box mining operation. Water and dirt would be diverted down wooden flumes and through screens. The miners would use the screens to collect gold and dump the water and other debris out of the flumes. Mercury was often used at the end of a sluice to find gold. Water would be diverted to cool off the mercury, which was hot, and then dumped into streams and rivers. Photo courtesy of the Del Norte Historical Society. |
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