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Definition of Placers
1. placer [n] - See also: placer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Placers
Literary usage of Placers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"Physical and chemical weathering, release of diamonds, and formation of placers
occur within this layer. Therefore, residual placers are small in area and ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The gold placers of California and Alaska constitute familiar examples. ...
placers, in mining, deposits of valuable minerals, found in small particles in ..."
3. A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within by Curtis Holbrook Lindley (1914)
"Right to appropriate lodes within placers. § 414. Manner of locating lodes within
placers. § 415. Width of lode locations within placers. § 413. ..."
4. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"Relation of Gold placers to Gold Lodes.—Where gold lodes are exposed it is
reasonable to expect placers, and where placers have been found the search for ..."
5. Handbook on American Mining Law by George Purcell Costigan (1908)
"THE LOCATION OF placers AND OF LODES WITHIN placers. 69. The Location of placers.
70. The Discovery Notice. 71. The Discovery Work. 72. ..."
6. Handbook on American Mining Law by George Purcell Costigan (1908)
"placers were not provided for in the act of 1866, but were by the act of July
... What deposits are so mineral as to be possible of location as placers has ..."
7. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett (1905)
"Bench placers ¡ placers in ancient stream deposits from 50 to 300 feet River-bar
placers. above present streams. placers on gravel flats in or adjacent to ..."
8. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"These are tiiu important and varied, since most placers occur at or near the
surface, (h derground methods for deep or buried placers (Art 116), ..."
9. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"Physical and chemical weathering, release of diamonds, and formation of placers
occur within this layer. Therefore, residual placers are small in area and ..."
10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The gold placers of California and Alaska constitute familiar examples. ...
placers, in mining, deposits of valuable minerals, found in small particles in ..."
11. A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within by Curtis Holbrook Lindley (1914)
"Right to appropriate lodes within placers. § 414. Manner of locating lodes within
placers. § 415. Width of lode locations within placers. § 413. ..."
12. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"Relation of Gold placers to Gold Lodes.—Where gold lodes are exposed it is
reasonable to expect placers, and where placers have been found the search for ..."
13. Handbook on American Mining Law by George Purcell Costigan (1908)
"THE LOCATION OF placers AND OF LODES WITHIN placers. 69. The Location of placers.
70. The Discovery Notice. 71. The Discovery Work. 72. ..."
14. Handbook on American Mining Law by George Purcell Costigan (1908)
"placers were not provided for in the act of 1866, but were by the act of July
... What deposits are so mineral as to be possible of location as placers has ..."
15. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett (1905)
"Bench placers ¡ placers in ancient stream deposits from 50 to 300 feet River-bar
placers. above present streams. placers on gravel flats in or adjacent to ..."
16. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"These are tiiu important and varied, since most placers occur at or near the
surface, (h derground methods for deep or buried placers (Art 116), ..."
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