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.
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.
Striking "paydirt" as a
placer miner involved a considerable degree of chance and most claims did not supply steady forms of income.
They include: Urals Gold-Platinum Company, the Bogoslovskiy Aluminum Smelter, which operates in Krasnoturinsk, and two smaller groups: a
placer miner and the geologic group that discovered the Vorontsovka deposit.
All samples are being processed by Jerry Bryde, a veteran
placer miner and 1984 World Gold Panning Champion.
It's been a few years since
placer miner Judd Edgerton took up the stereotypical pick, shovel and gold pan.
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 .
Schnabel, 76, believes he is the last
placer miner working in all of Southeast.
Connie Parks-Karl, a former
placer miner, is currently the president of the Fairbanks branch of the Alaska Women in Mining (AWIM) organization.
Further south near Fairbanks,
placer miner Don May operates Polar Mining, the third largest gold operation in Alaska, and he's always on the lookout for productive ways to mine.
Now, the same technology developed for use in Goldstream Mining's Mobile
Placer Miner is being sought after and applied to the cleanup of environmental sites across the country.
The segment of the Alaska mining industry that continues to struggle is the small
placer miner.
placer miner - a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging