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Common Operations—Small-Scale Mining and Sharing the "Take"
March 2006 by Jim Straight
The “Forty-niners,” known as “Argonauts,” separated the loose gold known as “wet diggin’s” from the river gravels using a wash pan. The pan was made of tin or iron and had a flat bottom and sloping sides.
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