The explorers found that in proximity to the boundary line there existed extensive and valuable placer gold mines, in which even then as many as three hundred miners were at work.
Copper, silver and coal can be found in large quantities, but little or no attention is now being paid to these valuable minerals, as every one is engaged in gold-hunting and working the extraordinary placer mining claims already located.
In time, however, quartz mining operations will commence, for the placer mines were washed down from the mother veins somewhere.
Here we turned up in search of placer mining, the short summer soon past and we returned to Dawson and fitted out for the winter.
Well we worked down to the Sea, and a few hours each day dug at placer mining.
You are the owner of a placer of incalculable richness, situated in a country where you will have continually to apprehend attacks from the Indians; you will, therefore, only pass through Guaymas.
Thereupon they went fifteen miles further down the stream, and they discovered one of the richestplacer mines in the world.
Their business was most important, for they brought specimens of placer gold which had just been found.
Gold is separated from gravel (placer mines) by washing with water.
Platinum= is a rare metal found with gold, iridium and other rare metals in placer mines.
Hydraulic mining" is the highest branch of placer mining; it washes more dirt, and requires more water, and a larger sluice, than any other kind of mining.
Placer mining is almost entirely mechanical, and of such a kind that no accuracy of workmanship or scientific or literary education is necessary to mastery in it.
The placerminer throws the dirt into the water, which then does the work; whereas the pulverizing of rock is a nice operation, requiring constant attention.
It washes nearly all the dirt and catches nearly all the placergold of the country.
The board-sluice is the great washing machine, and the most important instrument used in the placer mining of California.
The purpose of all placer miners is not to catch all the gold in the dirt which they wash, but to catch the greatest possible quantity within a given time.
Water is the great agent of the placer miner; it is the element of his power; its amount is the measure of his work, and its cost is the measure of his profit.
Not unfrequently it happens that a rich streak of pay-dirt in a placer claim is followed up to the quartz vein from which it came.
Together in the broiling sun, half buried under bank or in the river-beds, they go through the rough evolution of the placer miner's art.
But the great band of placer hunters have wandered into the distant territories of the great West.
Ripple Creek has been noted for its placer workings.
Really I had the money, but I just had to spend it in buying the cabin and land that was the only entrance to the placer bed.
Placer mining back in a canyon or gulch that never felt a human footfall before I stumbled into it.
The old way of salting a placeror a quartz vein with a shotgun is now antiquated.
In a general way, he knows in advance that all mining, whether placer or quartz, is very expensive.
A little while ago a party of capitalists bought a Nevada placer on what they thought to be strictly a "cinch" basis.
At Bannack, in the summer of 1862, a party of Colorado miners, lost on their way to Gold Creek in the Deer Lodge Valley, discovered the first rich placer diggings of Montana.
All the mining of Montana is now confined to the placer or gulch diggings.
The placer proved to be singularly regular, almost every claim for fifteen miles being found profitable.
The placer diggings are at their greatest depth here, but exceedingly rich.
The gold placer mining of the Yakima country makes no large show so far.
Placer mining has also been done on the South Fork; but the chief ores on this branch are argentiferous galena, with some gold in quartz.
Lewiston, in Idaho, came into being during the days of placer mining, and now depends on agricultural business.
And that doesn't touch the fur and the placer gold and the other mines and the cattle and wool and the farm products and the lumber.
Then after they had got the beaver about all trapped out, say fifty years, in came the placer mines.
It was where the traveling traders got their goods, and where the bull outfits got their freight in 1863 for the placer mines of Montana and was the outfit place for Bozeman and all those early points.
And not many of the placer miners and other early adventurers of that day dreamed of anything but gold.
After the Sphinx on this Scarab are the titles of the king, "The sun-placer of creation," of Thothmes III.
The mining camp at the mouth of the great canyon had been worked out, so far as the placer mines went, and these few broken men who remained, as a rule, were turning their attention to other things.
The placer mines have perished and passed into history.
Beach sands rich in heavy minerals and offshore placerdeposits are actively exploited by bordering countries, particularly India, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
Supposing the camp, if there was one, must be up in the hills, we followed a bridle path up stream in search of it, and soon came upon four men, placer mining on the banks of the creek.
We made our customary early start, and while saddling up that morning, Flood and the two placer miners packed the beef on their two pack horses, first cutting off enough to last us several days.
Two of the placer miners accompanied us back to the trail, both riding good saddle horses and leading two others under pack saddles.
The grand jury of Placer County has just adjourned, without finding any bill against the person named above.
It was taken down in my presence by Jacobs, the Assistant District Attorney of Placer County, and read over to the deceased before he affixed his signature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "placer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
