placer

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Dorr, whose story earned newspaper coverage in subsequent years, claimed the sand there was “very rich in placer gold.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

Bond, who has been working for the Yukon Geological Survey since 1997, is on his periodic rounds, visiting placer miners, looking at their operations and chatting about what they’re finding.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2021

Metzger, a state qualifier a year ago and a conference placer, is also set to go to Michigan.

From Washington Times • Mar. 8, 2021

Mr. Tremblay began placer mining a few years ago, a passion he admitted is stoked more by the thrill of discovery than the prospect of striking it rich.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2017

At Omai on the Essequibo river a German syndicate worked a large concession on the hydraulic process of placer mining with considerable success, and more recently took to dredging on its 679 flats.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various