The people of Punt worship an ivory woman, and they wash gold out of the rivers in wicker baskets.

They're goin' to wash gold.

Say they wash gold.

Erosion often washes gold out of surface rocks.

Arapahoe City was a base camp town laid out on a grid to serve miners washing placer gold from nearby Clear Creek.

But there wash gold!

We can wash enough gold there to keep us going while we develop this.

You-all been washing gold along the creek," I said, "but you never stopped to think where those grains of gold started from.

Miners used to wash gold out of ore with a sluice.

In 1832, French naturalist Alcides d'Orbigny proclaimed that the pools and parallel canals had been used for washing gold.