sluice
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People on social media brandish gold-flecked pans and nuggets while showing off their equipment, ranging from old-fashioned picks to gold-separating sluice boxes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.
From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2023
The magnitude of the floods, coupled with high tides, overwhelm the sluice gates and colonial-era seawall, but Arjune Lilmohan, 32, said he is not giving up the fight.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023
“A river is really a giant sluice box,” said Barron Brandon, a former mining executive who pans for gold in his spare time and has found enough pieces to fill a finger-size glass vial.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
The reservoirs were full, and the River Board had had to release a lot of water into the river and keep the sluice gates open.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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