assayer
Example Sentences
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A whistleblower, mine assayer David Fingado, disclosed the mine was meritless to CNN.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2022
The King is played in the film by Michael Shannon, a frequent assayer of the quirky and the offbeat in movies.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
“It’s one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2011
"It's one of the first $50 gold coins Augustus Humbert struck when he was appointed U.S. assayer in San Francisco in 1851."
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2011
One o' them, wonderin' what the black rock might be, an' havin' a hunch it might be lead it was so heavy, put a chunk in the hands of an assayer in Placerville.
From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis