gold-washing

In the afternoon we walked a little way up and down the stream, and saw some gold-washing on a homeopathic scale.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

The wages of free laborers, when employed in such work as gold-washing, agriculture, or digging coal, is 2 yards of unbleached calico per day.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

When the slave-trade began, it seemed to many of the merchants a more speedy mode of becoming rich to sell off the slaves than to pursue the slow mode of gold-washing and agriculture, and they continued to export them until they had neither hands to labor nor to fight for them.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

When the rivers in the district of Manica and other gold-washing places have been flooded, they leave a coating of mud on the banks.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

I said but little of my desire to "go through the motions" of gold-washing, until one day, when, as I passed a deep hole in which several men were at work, my companion requested the owner to fill a small pan, which I had in my hand, with dirt from the bed-rock.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

But the thing that sent the skipper outside on the run was the sight of a heap of gold-washing implements piled in a corner and bearing no evidence of more than very casual usage.

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

The cascarilleros explained this appearance as due to former arrangements for gold-washing in an old river-bed, the San

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

It is recorded that in the year 1572 Captain Juan Salcedo (Legaspi's grandson) went to inspect the mines of Paracale, (Camarines); and in the same district the village of Mambulao has long enjoyed fame for the gold-washing in its vicinity.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Krasnoyayk, the capital, stands in a plain in the centre of the district, where the mania of gold-washing broke out about fifteen years ago.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

Apparently, gold-washing had not been carried on for a very long time, as although the main building still has a roof, the whole place has a very deserted look about it; but, nevertheless, it still affords a covering for weary travellers like ourselves, and we soon began to select the most comfortable looking corners for our beds.

Argentina from a British Point of View Various