dry blowing

In this arid region, water was so scarce that miners got their gold by dry blowing.

Due to the lack of water, prospectors searching for gold in the Western Australian goldfields used a process called dry blowing.

The miners had to either take their dirt to one of the towns to use water to pan for the gold, or use a method called dry blowing.

Prospects including Northern, Taipan South and Dry Blowing (see attached plan) are the focus for the vacuum drilling program.

A contemporary description of the dry blowing process used at Mount Browne in 1881 states that miners there went to work with "a small broom made of twigs and a tin dish".

Here the acrid atmosphere and the dry blowing of the wind had awakened a thirst to parch my mouth, as if I had tried to swallow handfuls of the ashes about me.

If the intention is to search for gold gems or minerals a licence is required regardless of method used such as Electronic detecting, Panning, Dowsing, Sluicing, Dry Blowing or Washing etc.

Gunbarrel: Encouraging results from base-of-hardpan drilling indicate new gold targets north of the Taipan Prospect at Cobra-Green and also at Jake-Rattle, Dry Blowing North and Eureka Northwest.

A moderate to strong, and laterally consistent BOH gold anomaly in the Dry Blowing North-Eureka Northwest area is related to a distinct magnetic gradient reflecting quartz, sericite, carbonate alteration in a shear zone.