| 11. | The Sluice Box, at the junction with the Alfred River, separates the upper and middle section of the Maruia Valley.
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| 12. | In the fall, but a short time afler sluicing had begun, floods washed away many dams, ditches, and sluice boxes.
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| 13. | The cylinder has many holes in it to allow undersized material ( including gold ) to fall into a sluice box.
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| 14. | The Little Sluice, also known as the Sluice Box or simply as " The Box ", is close to Spider Lake.
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| 15. | The earth and fine gravel was then flushed through sluice boxes where the heavier gold was extracted from the lighter gravel.
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| 16. | During Eli's time at Rock Creek, his son Gaston fell into a miner's sluice box and drowned at two years of age.
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| 17. | The dredge spits the dirt, rocks and water across a sluice box, which contains layers of baffles and ridges, fabrics and carpet.
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| 18. | At the time of the writer's visit the camp was deserted, although the sluice boxes and canvas hose were still in position.
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| 19. | In the late 1860s two and a half tons of gold were produced in a final clean up of the sluice boxes.
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| 20. | These operations typically use a land based excavator to feed a gravel screening plant and sluice box floating in a temporary pond.
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