LSE4325987 Gold mining and washing in a claim in Cameron Town (British Columbia, Canada), the district is the richest gold deposit in the region, gold is extracted from underground by hollow wells, from which buckets of ???aid mud?? a mixture of clay and gravel that contains gold powder. Engraving to illustrate the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific (route du nord ouest par les terres), in 1862-1864 by Viscount Milton and Doctor Cheadle, in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Gold mining and washing in a claim in Cameron Town (British Columbia, Canada), the district is the richest gold deposit in the region, gold is extracted from underground by hollow wells, from which buckets of ???aid mud?? a mixture of clay and gravel that contains gold powder. Engraving to illustrate the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific (route du nord ouest par les terres), in 1862-1864 by Viscount Milton and Doctor Cheadle, in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.