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placer::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvion, alluvium |
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Placer and Yolo County arrests remained fairly consistent throughout the decade.
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Placer County officials forecast tax revenue to be as much as 3 percent higher.
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Placer High's Eddie Vanderdoes says he's relieved the recruiting process is over.
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Mining dredges were imported from America to work the placer gold of the river.
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Over 81,000 ounces of placer gold came from the Porcupine district near Haines.
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Placer County Registrar Jim McCauley sends teams to high schools to register kids.
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The placer mine machine consists of adobe columns, pulleys, ropes, and wood boxes.
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This includes placer deposits, laterite deposits and residual or eluvial deposits.
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Placer gold was discovered in 1907, but activity was sporadic and poorly recorded.
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- An alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral
- In geology, a placer deposit or placer is an accumulation of valuable minerals formed by deposition of dense mineral phases in a trap site. The name is from the Spanish word placer, meaning "alluvial sand". Types of placer deposits include alluvium, eluvium, beach placers, and paleoplacers.
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- Someone who places or arranges something; Someone who deals in stolen goods; a fence
- A placer is a deposit formed when heavy minerals are mechanically concentrated by currents, most commonly streams and waves. Placers are sources of gold, tin, platinum, diamonds, and other valuable minerals. Source: Lutgens and Tarbuck (1992)
- A surficial mineral deposit formed by mechanical concentration of mineral particles from weathered debris.
- A customer who places a hair on a pizza and then complains about it in hopes of getting a discount or a free pizza.
- A deposit found in sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.
- A deposit of sand, dirt or clay, often in an active or ancient stream bed, containing fine particles of gold or silver, which could be mined by washing. The word is the Spanish for submarine plain, and rhymes with "passer."
