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sluicing Placer Mining 
n. the action or practice of separating gold from gravel in a sluice-box.
See also: sluice-box
- 1859 The unusual dry weather this summer has so shrunk the smaller streams that sluicing in several places has been suspended and the miners are now actually praying for rain.
- 1913 . . . Quartz Creek, up which he went a day and a half, where he put up a dam to raise water for sluicing. . . .
- 1859 The unusual dry weather this summer has so shrunk the smaller streams that sluicing in several places has been suspended and the miners are now actually praying for rain.