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Alluvial gold refers to gold dust found in sand, silt or other substances deposited by flowing water.
Mongolia Reviews Mine Licenses Peter Stein 2010
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Alluvial deposits are geologically very recent and deep.
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Alluvial fans of rubble, sand, and gravel build at the base of the mountains and often coalesce to form bajadas.
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Alluvial fans of rubble, sand, and gravel build at the base of the mountains and often coalesce to form bajadas.
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The human development of the Missouri Alluvial Plain over the last two centuries has separated the Missouri River from its floodplain.
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The Northern Mississippi Alluvial Plain within Tennessee is a relatively flat region of Quaternary alluvial deposits of sand, silt, clay, and gravel.
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Alluvial diamond mining remains the major source of hard currency earnings accounting for nearly half of Sierra Leone's exports.
Sierra Leone 2009
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Pasture with some cropland is common on the better-drained land of the Flatwoods/Alluvial Prairie Margins (65b).
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The Flatwoods/Alluvial Prairie Margins extend north from Mississippi, but the distinctiveness of this narrow ecoregion belt fades quickly from Ripley, Mississippi North into Tennessee.
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Alluvial fans spilling from surrounding mountain ranges fill the valleys, often leaving little intervening flat ground.
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