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slum [shortening of slumgullion, q.v.] Placer Mining 
n. thick slippery mud, or gumbo, found in the creek valleys of the B.C. interior.
See also: Cariboo slum slumgullion
- 1866 (1962) On prospeckin' I still was bent ;/Had shares in a' the kintra side,/In shafts gaun' doon thro' slum and slide. . . .
- 1870 At the depth of three feet he struck a bed of dry slum, nine feet thick.
- 1958 The creek had never been properly bottomed and the E. Edens . . . sank a shaft ninety feet only to hit slum.
- 1866 (1962) On prospeckin' I still was bent ;/Had shares in a' the kintra side,/In shafts gaun' doon thro' slum and slide. . . .