placer mining


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placer mining

n.
The obtaining of minerals from placers by washing or dredging.

placer miner n.
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Noun1.placer mining - mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredgingplacer mining - mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging
mining, excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
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Translations

placer mining

n (in rivers) → Goldwaschen nt
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- August 21, 2019) - Deer Horn Capital (CSE: DHC) (OTCBB: GODYF) announced a new initiative for restoration of salmon waterways damaged by placer mining. Deer Horn's 51% First Nations partner Cheona Metals has partnered with Washington, DC-based RESOLVE (www.RESOLVE.org), one of the world's leading social and environmental organizations, to support the first Yukon placer mine restoration under the Salmon Gold™ label.
Comstock Processing LLC, a new wholly owned subsidiary the Company that includes all of the assets at the American Flat campus, including crushing, leaching, Merrill-Crowe metallurgical processing and the Company's various metallurgical laboratories, has pursued, and the Board has approved, the formation of a Joint Venture with Mercury Clean Up, with proprietary technology for placer mining gold and silver bearing materials containing mercury.
Evidence of significant hydrothermal alteration & breccias, geochemical anomalies and placer mining supports potential for Cu/Au porphyry systems and epithermal Au deposits similar to numerous multi-million-ounce Au and bulk tonnage Cu deposits ~40km away.
URI closed the previously announced transaction to acquire certain placer mining claims in Utah comprising the Sal Rica project from Mesa Exploration Corp.
(NASDAQ: URRE) (ASX: URI) has agreed to acquire certain placer mining claims comprising the Sal Rica lithium brine project from Canada-based exploration stage mining company Mesa Exploration Corp.(TSX Venture: MSA) (OTCPK: MSAJF), the company said.
Among specific topics are Canada's regulatory regime for managing impacts to fish and fish habitat, the management and administration of Mexican fisheries to regulate impacts of fishing activities on fish habitat, a comprehensive framework for characterizing cumulative effects in aquatic ecosystems to support regional environmental assessments and integrated planning and management, an integrated management process for regulating the effects of placer mining on fish and fish habitats in the Yukon, and the demise of American eel in the Upper St.
Salter, a professor emeritus at San Jose State University, has penned books on famous trials, including The Trial of Dan White, and previously directed a placer mining company.
It has been named the "Grasshopper Placer Mining Group" due to its location and the method of mining that will be used to extract gold and other precious metals from the location.
There, Pavlis found her answer: A rolled-up piece of paper, with the words "NOTICE OF LOCATION - ASSOCIATION PLACER MINING CLAIM" at the top.
The company aims to concentrate initial placer mining efforts on developing and operating within Target Area #1, as identified in the report based on its result.