History & Geology
Gold Deposition and Gradients of Placer Streams—Part I
June 2012 by Jim Halloran
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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