placer mining

The obtaining of minerals from placers by washing or dredging.

placer miner n.

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placer miner - a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging

miner, mineworker - laborer who works in a mine

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It's life," placer miner Chintemir Dushenaaly said.

Life in rural Kyrgyzstan: Naryn gold prospectors pan out gold despite -30-C weather

When the old placer miner is shot dead in a Calido Run gunfight, however, he has only managed to disclose a few cryptic words about its exact location to his young son.

Teal's Gold

William (Bill) Hong worked hard all his life as a placer miner, and in winter he toiled at many other jobs, from cutting firewood to working on the railroads.

Great Mining Camps of Canada 3. The History and Geology of the Cariboo Goldfield, Barkerville and Wells, BC

Striking "paydirt" as a placer miner involved a considerable degree of chance and most claims did not supply steady forms of income.

Manly gambles: the politics of risk on the Comstock lode, 1860-1880

It was a challenge, Garrick said, because the USACE's customer base includes everyone from BP to a placer miner to the rural resident who wants to build in her backyard, which just happens to be a wetland.

Award-winning, Native-owned

It's been a few years since placer miner Judd Edgerton took up the stereotypical pick, shovel and gold pan.

Big dozer, little dozer: Alaska miners rely on heavy equipment

An open-cut placer miner can be taking water from a stream that has arsenic levels of say, 150 ppbs, but the miner's discharge back into the water will have to be at .18 ppbs (by 1999 it should be 50 ppbs), standards higher than those of drinking water.

For more than the fun of it

Schnabel, 76, believes he is the last placer miner working in all of Southeast.

Southeast moves toward mining boom

These items were often hidden in the miners' voluminous clothing or even in their long hair and smuggled out and sold to Korean placer miners near the concessions.

Keeping a (glass) eye on workers: Ending theft at the gold mines