Dry blowing is a method to extract gold from dry soil without the use of water.
One method is to pour dry soil from a height into a pan, the wind would blow away finer dust allowing gold particles to fall into the pan.[1]
Alternatively, the prospector would use one pan and throw dirt up into the air and catch it.[2]
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