sluice box in a sentence
Examples
- The Sluice Box, at the junction with the Alfred River, separates the upper and middle section of the Maruia Valley.
- In the fall, but a short time afler sluicing had begun, floods washed away many dams, ditches, and sluice boxes.
- The cylinder has many holes in it to allow undersized material ( including gold ) to fall into a sluice box.
- The Little Sluice, also known as the Sluice Box or simply as " The Box ", is close to Spider Lake.
- The earth and fine gravel was then flushed through sluice boxes where the heavier gold was extracted from the lighter gravel.
- During Eli's time at Rock Creek, his son Gaston fell into a miner's sluice box and drowned at two years of age.
- The dredge spits the dirt, rocks and water across a sluice box, which contains layers of baffles and ridges, fabrics and carpet.
- At the time of the writer's visit the camp was deserted, although the sluice boxes and canvas hose were still in position.
- In the late 1860s two and a half tons of gold were produced in a final clean up of the sluice boxes.
- These operations typically use a land based excavator to feed a gravel screening plant and sluice box floating in a temporary pond.