placer

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They then wanted to gather the gold, and Marshall threatened to shoot them if they attempted it; but these men had sense enough to know that if "placer"-gold existed at Coloma, it would also be found farther down-stream, and they gradually "prospected" until they reached Mormon Island, fifteen miles below, where they discovered one of the richest placers on earth.

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  1. noun A glacial or alluvial deposit of sand or gravel containing eroded particles of valuable minerals.
  2. noun A place where a placer deposit is washed to extract its mineral content.

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  • Try and the first placer will be awarded with US$ 1,000, a certification of honor by our company and a great Job-offer. —  SiteExperts.com Forums
  • She is favourite again, the more so since her colleague, 2007 winner, and Berlin ‘08 second placer (2: 21: 31), Askale Magarska has a stress fracture. —  IAAF.org - News
  • Its world renowned 15kHz Groundhog circuitry has the power to penetrate through heavily mineralized soils to locate nuggets, placer, float and ore veins. —  We Blog A Lot
  • Jim Inhofe (R-OK) but Inhofe refuses to confirm or deny he's the hold placer, although sources close to the Oklahoma reactionary claim he loathes the idea of confirming a lesbian (Ms Sutley) in any government jobs. —  DownWithTyranny!
  • The Olympic champion enjoyed the assistance of Beijing fourth-placer, Svetlana Klyuka, as a pacemaker as she pulled the Kenyan through 400m in 55.66. —  IAAF.org - News
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  1. Spanish, shoal, placer, from Catalan placer, shoal, from plassa, place, from Medieval Latin placea; see place.

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  1. from place + -er.
  2. from Spanish placer, a place near a river where gold-dust is found (cf. placel, a sand-bank), from plaza, a place: see place.
  3. placer, n.
 

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