Gold is found chiefly in placers, and in colonial times the output was large, but the deposits were long ago exhausted and the industry is now comparatively unimportant. [Please select]
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Meanwhile, McNamara hired every idle man he could lay hand upon, and ripped the placers open with double shifts. [Please select]
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Six or seven years later, the placers, for such they were, were becoming exhausted. [Please select]
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In that country the cream has already been skimmed off the "placers." [Please select]
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Men sometimes made large daily sums in the placers; but necessary expenses reduced their net income to small wages. [Please select]
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The "hardy miner" was a reality, and the life in the placers was, to such as he, profitable and pleasant. [Please select]
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All these islands are, in many districts, rich in placers and mines of gold, a metal which the natives dig and work. [Please select]
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"Well, they ARE great placers," said the miner, as the three walked on together; "nobody knows HOW great because we've only scratched at them yet." [Please select]
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After dividing placers into deep and shallow, the next classification will be according to their topographical position, as into hill, flat, bench, bar, river-bed, ancient river-bed, and gulch mines. [Please select]
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