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bar diggings † Placer Mining

• gold-mining operations carried out on a bar (def. 1); also, the defined area of such operations.

  See also: bar ((n.)) (def. 1)  bench diggings  dry diggings  

  • 1860  No bar diggings there, but bench and bed-rock diggings.
  • 1897  "Bar diggings" shall mean any part of a river over which the water extends when the water is in its flooded state, and which is not covered at low water.
  • 1960  In "bar diggings" a claim shall be (a) a piece of land not exceeding 250 feet square on any bar which is covered at high water. . . .
  • 1962  They had travelled over the famous Eldorado and Bonanza creeks to bar diggings beyond. . . .