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eluviation The movement of soil caused by excessive water within the soil. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Raymor plans to install a high capacity washing system for recovering "nuggety" gold in the eluvium as soon as its tests to determine how to recover as much as possible are completed. Twyman, geological consultant, has been on site to start the programme and reports finding several areas of artesanal gold mining of eluvial/colluvial material (eluvial material is surface material that is derived from the weathering (rotting) of bedrock and colluvial material is eluvium that has moved down-slope but is probably not very distant from its source). Since the recent gold discovery, traditional artisanal mining of gold has developped in the overlying eluvium. |
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