dry-blowing

Many traces of prospectors were visible here -- the last to be seen for many a day -- shallow dry-blowing holes and little heaps of sieved dirt, and the tracks of camels and horses.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

The gold is extracted from these depths by crushing and dry-blowing.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

But the very lowest depths of despair, cannot compare with the heights of satisfaction, attained after a successful day's "dry-blowing."

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

A slight rain had fallen, insufficient to leave much water about, and yet enough to so moisten the soil as to make dry-blowing impossible in the ordinary way.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

A part of the timber had already been cleared to admit of "dry-blowing" operations -- a process adopted for the separation of gold from alluvial soil in the waterless parts of Australia.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

In Coolgardie the dry-blowing had been confined to a very shallow depth, and yet close to Coolgardie -- in Rollo's Bore -- there was evidence of the existence of a very deep valley.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

The melted lumps of solder thus formed were collected by the ordinary process of dry-blowing, and sold to tinsmiths and others engaged in the manufacture of condensers.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

This we did, dry-blowing in the ranges with no payable results.

Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 1873

If, brufh'd from Ruffian wilds, a cutting gale Rife not, and fcatter from liis humid wings The clammy mildew; or, dry-blowing, breathe 1 1 j Untimely froft j before whofe baleful blaft The full-blown Spring through all her foliage fhrinks, joylefs and dead, a wide-dejet-led wafte.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790