The process would continue down to either a pay streak or bedrock.
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The pay streak varied from 100 to wide and was at least long.
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Prospect holes were then dug in an attempt to find the ore or " pay streak ".
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Smaller dredges with suction tubes are used to sample areas behind boulders and along potential pay streaks, until " colour " ( gold ) appears.
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Miners initially sank shafts to prospect for the pay streaks by building a fire atop the permafrost, then as it melted, shoveling away the mud.
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Several promising " pay streaks " were hit, only to fizzle out just as they appeared to spell " bonanza . " Carlisle, hard-pressed to make ends meet, was obliged to suspend operations for several years at a time.
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