Word: placers
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...Pacific Northwest. Gold was discovered in Idaho's Boise Basin in 1862. Some 8,000 miners, mostly of European origin, rushed in. By 1870, Chinese miners were staking claims or purchasing or leasing them. In 1881 Hop Lee, of the Hong Lee Tong, signed a lease for a placer claim at the junction of Mores and Granite creeks. It is this site, opened in 1995 (with Simon's participation), to which the Tuckers are returning next month to take up shovels, trowels, whisk brooms and sifting screens...
Passport in Time, 800-281-9176. Excavations at the Hong Lee Placer Claim are closed...