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placer mining

NOUN
  1. mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging

How To Use placer mining In A Sentence

  • And they want Captain Largo to get us out checking the appropriate chapter houses to see if he's been doing any placer mining. THE WAILING WIND
  • In conducting coastal open air placer mining or shore-based well drilling to exploit seabed mineral resources, effective measures must be taken to prevent pollution to the marine environment.
  • The area no longer has any active mines, but there are large tracts of land under claim for placer mining.
  • Huge mounds of river rock stand with great hubris along the creek banks, remnants of the exhaustive sluice and placer mining operations that once took place on the town's perimeter.
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