[Illustration captions, left to right:]
Library of Congress
Individual prospectors used a metal pan to separate gold from sand and rocks. The miner swirled the sand and water mixture, allowing the heavy gold to sink to the bottom.
[Photo:] Library of Congress
A Sluice removed the gold from dirt and gravel on a larger scale. The riffles on the bottom of the slanted boxes caught the gold, while water rinsed away the waste.
"This was a Rockey day on us... Ground Sluiced Some but could not make it go commenced Shoveling in when or best Riffel come out. I Swore Some, think we lost lots of money Had two days run in the Sluices... Musketos are geting thick"
June 8, 1876, from the diary of Jerry Bryan
[Photo:] Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
| HM Number | HMXI4 |
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| Tags | |
| Marker Number | 2 |
| Placed By | Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Friday, September 26th, 2014 at 12:08pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 13T E 601180 N 4914303 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 44.37495000, -103.72996667 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 44° 22.497', W 103° 43.798' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 44° 22' 29.82" N, 103° 43' 47.88" W |
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| Area Code(s) | 605 |
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