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Gold Prospectors placed a shovel of dirt from an area suspected to contain gold into a pan or a sieve along with some water and vigorously shook the pan back and forth. This process was called:

Question 3 options:


a: digging


b: hydraulic panning


c: hydraulic mining


d: panning

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D. Panning. This was the traditional way of finding gold.

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