THROWING GOLD AWAY.
As an instance of how fine gold is lost in the operations of hydraulic sluicing may be mentioned the case of some tailing water recently tested in Donnelly's Creek. A local resident took a dishful of the dirty water just discharged from Messrs Pryor's tailrace, and, after letting it settle, panned off the sediment, which gave as a result several specks of very fine gold. As the Creek contains a good volume, and Hows at a high rate of speed, it will be very easily seen that the quantity of gold lost in this way must be no inconsiderable amount. A professor in a School of Mines in San Fransisco essayed similar dirty tailing water from a sluicing claim, and found it to con tain gold, which though invisible to the naked eye, ran ldwt to the gallon of dirty water. He calculated that far more fine gold had thus been thrown into the harbor known as Golden Gate than had ever been won by the miners of California. In all probability our so-called gold-saving appliances, like those in California, might be described as apparatus for throwing gold away.— Ross Advocate.
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Golden Bay Argus, Volume VII, Issue 68, 19 September 1901, Page 4
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