Diamond Mines - Searching For Diamonds Using Seruca

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A seruca is a special type of screen which is similar to a gold pan, but has stainless steel window-screen wire in the bottom, and is round bottomed. After the workers screen out with help of water the over-sized material, there are only small stones left, and the heavy minerals eventually being concentrated on the screen bottom.

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