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Gold Deposition and Gradients of Placer Streams—Part I

When placer miners from the gold rush era began experimenting with the slope of their sluices, they must have pondered the ideal slope for trapping gold in a creek bed too. Logic suggests the same is true for streams...

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The Golden Streams of Butte County, California


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The Coolgardie Gold Mining Camp of Southern California


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