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Large mining companies use high-tech methods for open-pit and underground mining, whereas alluvial mining is done by hand and may be unregulated.

The ground was fertile, with alluvial, or unconsolidated, soil.

In the valleys the land is a deep alluvial loam, easily worked, producing bountiful crops of the finest leaf tobacco.

The Pryor makes the heaviest, richest shipping, and can only be grown to perfection on alluvial or heavily manured lands.

As the alluvial deposit is laid down, a good deal of vegetable matter was built into it.

At the same time the alluvial materials, building out to sea, thus diminish the slope of the stream.

Since then alluvial plains have filled this estuary to even beyond the original mouth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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