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So are placer mines from back in the day just a bunch of guys with rocker and sluice boxes working a creek? I'm trying to figure this out because the creek I'm working right now used to be an old placer mine. I'm finding decent gold (for me anyways) and I'm trying to get an idea of what went on back in the day. Thanks

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Today, 01:40 PM#2419GottaMinute Jul 2012colfax, caGarrett gtax 400308 104 times Prospecting

Old time placer claims can differ greatly in the methods used to extract gold. Small scale operations range from panning to rocker boxes to wing damming the river and using sluice boxes. Large scale placer mining was generally done with either hydraulicking (using VERY large garden hoses) and washing away whole mountains, to doodle bug dredges and dynamite. Google dutch flat, placer county california, or malakoff diggings for a good idea on how much material tje old timers moved to get gold. Malakoff Diggings was actually the operation that started the whole ban on hydraulicking in 1892. They washed so much over-burden into the yuba river it flooded areas downstream all the way to Sacramento, raising the river basin by as much as 20 ft in some locations.

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