Placer mining is looking for a specific mineral/claiming it/mining it
Sluicing is a way of "mining gold"
A placer deposit or placer is an accumulation of minerals formed by gravity separation during sedimentary processes. Placer deposits are frequently beaches or river gravels. They are mined by gathering up the ore containing material and sluicing these using water.
Placer (pronounced plass-er) seeks to recover gold that heas been weathered, is in the form of dust and small nuggets, and has been washed out of the rock formation. Panning for gold is placer mining. Hard rock mining removes solid chunks of rock that must be crushed to recover the gold.
There's placer mining, and hardrock mining.
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Sluices were first used in the alluvial mining of gold placer deposits during the California Gold Rush.
A placer deposit or placer is an accumulation of minerals formed by gravity separation during sedimentary processes. Placer deposits are frequently beaches or river gravels. They are mined by gathering up the ore containing material and sluicing these using water.
Placer (pronounced plass-er) seeks to recover gold that heas been weathered, is in the form of dust and small nuggets, and has been washed out of the rock formation. Panning for gold is placer mining. Hard rock mining removes solid chunks of rock that must be crushed to recover the gold.
There's placer mining, and hardrock mining.
There's placer mining, and hardrock mining.
Allin R. Copp has written: 'Placer gold mining' -- subject(s): Gold mines and mining, Placer mining
Placer mining is recovering gold dust that has washed into streams and rivers (panning and sluice boxes, as well as dredges today) . Quartz mining involves traditional mining of gold bearing quartz rock, and requires digging,transporting, and crushing the rock to extract the gold.
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Placer gold mining
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Placer mining
Hardrock or Placer?