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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: deliberately and carefully. It was fine washing, and he washed fine and finer,
with a keen scrutiny and delicate and fastidious touch. At last the pan seemed
empty of everything but water; but with a quick semicircular flirt that sent
the water flying over the shallow rim into the stream, he disclosed a layer of
black sand on the bottom of the pan. So thin was this layer that it was like a
streak of paint. He examined it closely. In the midst of it was a tiny golden
speck. He dribbled a little water in over the depressed edge of the pan. With
a quick flirt he sent the water sluicing across the bottom, turning the grains
of black sand over and over A second tiny golden speck rewarded his effort.
The washing had now become very fine--fine beyond all need of ordinary
placer-mining. He worked the black sand, a small portion at a time, up the
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