Meanwhile, McNamara hired every idle man he could lay hand upon, and ripped the placers open with double shifts.
I clouded the title to the richest placers in the region, but I’m blamed if I quite see the use of it.
There are also many gold mines and placers in the other islands, especially among the Pintados, on the Botuan River in Mindanao, and in Sebu, where a mine of good gold is worked, called Taribon.
Some placers and mines were worked at Paracali in the province of Camarines, where there is good gold mixed with copper.
All these islands are, in many districts, rich in placers and mines of gold, a metal which the natives dig and work.
The long oval mound of red clay, overgrown with trees, and rising 295 feet above sea-level, is all auriferous; but there are placers richer than their neighbours.
The Gold Coast contains rich placers in abundance: if they fail it will be for want of hands, or because the cost of labour will swallow up profits.
The liberation of pawns and other anti-abolitionist 'fads' had so raised the wage-rate that the rich placers were presently left to the natives.
From the still unexhaustedplacers poured a flood of gold, hard money, tangible wealth; and a large percentage of it paused in San Francisco, changed hands before continuing its journey.
Years after the placers failed someone discovered that the wholesale use of hydraulic "giants" produced gold in paying quantities.
He thus describes that section: "The Indians represent rich Placers existing throughout this region, and large numbers of them had lately come in with considerable quantities of the dust.
The greatest drawback to the profitable working of the Placers of this district, is the scarcity of water.
The weatherin' away of the surface enrichment made the placers we washed out in '61-'64.
It must be borne in mind, all of these placers are the ancient beds of a least two separate periods of a great river, consequently, bed-rock will undoubtedly reveal fabulous wealth which cannot be uncovered in an examination.
In searching for placers it is necessary to bear in mind that the watercourses of the country have not always flowed in the channels they now occupy.
Whilst most placershave been formed by flowing water, some owe their origin to the action of ice, and are really glacial moraines.
In the early history of the colony the profits of mining were prodigious, but during the seventeenth century, after the cream of the surface placers had been skimmed, progress was slow.
Though the Incas were known to have extracted immense quantities of the metal from the placers around Lake Titicaca, the surface deposits had been pretty well exhausted, and the Spaniards were disappointed.
The Spanish authorities wanted nothing from their American dominions but gold and silver, and when Venezuela's placers were exhausted the colony was neglected.
The gold placers which had attracted the first adventurers to the mountains west of Caracas became exhausted within a few decades.
The news of the discovery brought a crowd of Spanish miners from Chile, and as the placers were rich and Indian labour abounded, fortunes were rapidly accumulated.
We're right in the heart of those tremendous placers that Lewis and Clark never dreamed about.
All the settlements in the country are on the rivers, save the purely mining settlements that die and are abandoned as the placers play out.
Such roads would give an enormous stimulus to prospecting, and would render it possible to work gold placers all over the country that are of too low grade to be worked at the present rates of transportation.
Ever since 1886 placers have been worked in this district, and it still yields gold, though the output and the number of men are alike much reduced.
In the French Broad valley gold exists in placers and veins near the warm springs; on Cane creek, and elsewhere in Buncombe, and in placers on Boylston creek, in Transylvania.
It occurs inplacers and veins in Catawba, and in placers in Watauga, Ashe, and Alleghany.
Rich deep placersmay be worked by drifting, but whenever practicable hydraulicing is to be preferred as giving better results.
Several other small placers had been found, noways rich, but still enough to keep a busy man goin'.
He offers to show Father where the placersare supposed to be, if he's willin' to come along.
In 1813, some placers were found an' there was a mild rush, but it died right out.
The Schiefflins had located plenty o' placers on the Lower Yukon.
That way he got a big share in the placers found on Silver Bow and doubled his pile.
Some o' the richest placers ever found have the gold ground down so fine that it ain't much bigger'n grains o' dust.
Exports of gold and precious stones had fallen with the exhaustion of the best placers late in the preceding century.
As early as 1718 an expedition had penetrated fifteen hundred miles to the west and discovered good placers on the plateau where the headwaters of the Madeira and the Paraguay intertwine.
In spite of the threatened exhaustion of the placers mining flourished.
The Macalamo Dry Diggings is considered one of the richest placers in the gold region.
Discoveries of rich placers have been made in its vicinity lately; some of the richest holes at Columbia are thirty, forty, and fifty feet deep.
One of the most frequented placers of California is called the Stanislaus mine, situated near the Stanislaus River.
From these towns came most of the gold-diggers, and in the north were many other gold-placers which we had not seen.
The gold placers we had passed lay in the La-shung country, and the lake at camp No.
The news of the placers practically emptied the town.
The "hardy miner" was a reality, and the life in the placers was, to such as he, profitable and pleasant.
Placers are forming now and have formed at all stages of the earth's history.
Fossil" placers of this kind are best represented by deposits in the Black Hills of South Dakota and probably by the South African gold deposits.
The weathering of the rock has developed placers from which most of the rubies are recovered.
At present the placers of recent geologic age supply a tenth to a fifth of the gold, and ancient or fossil placers in the Transvaal supply another two-fifths.
About two-thirds of the world's tin is obtained from placers and one-third from vein or "lode" deposits.
Tin has sufficient value to warrant the working of certain placers containing only a half-pound to the cubic yard, although the usual run is somewhat higher.
Placers are still important producers in China, Siam, and Bolivia, although in these countries vein deposits are also worked.
In general the great unsolved problem of the origin of the entire group of mineral deposits in placers and sediments relates to the scale of the results.
The metal is most abundant in placers formed in the river beds.
Such placers are common in the Jaina River and its tributaries in the province of Santo Domingo; in Bonao creek in Seibo province; and in the Verde River, the streams of Sabaneta and a number of other streams of the Cibao.
The gold so far has been taken from Bonanza and Eldorado, both well named, for the richness of the placers is truly marvellous.
The salmon didn't run as usual and McCormick, hearing from the Indians of rich placers nearby where gold could be washed out in a frying pan, started in to prospect.
He was one of the first to discover gold in the fabulously rich placers of the new El Dorado.
Now we are rapidly approaching Granite, a town twenty-five years old; and presently we catch sight of the great gold placers that formerly made the fame of this locality.
The whole mouth of California gulch, here, is a vast bed of clean, drifted gravel, the result of the gold hydraulic operations above, the placers having been worked more or less continuously for twenty years.
It was not long, however, before the placers were all staked off, and the claims began to be exhausted.
Following this nearly to its source, along what they called California gulch, they were delighted to findplacers of gold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "placers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
