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Title: Ground Sluicing, Nuggetty Gully, Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park
Description: When water was delivered to the Castlemaine gold fields by channels called water races, many of the gullies were extensively ground-sluiced. Miners obtained the gold by using water to wash away the dirt. The loose stones were stacked in heaps on the sides of the channels. This would once have been a stark landscape but now is revegetating itself.
Rights: Courtesy of Parks Victoria

Created: 24 August 2006

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