placer miner

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   a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging

   Broaderminer

Questions about placer miner

What does placer miner mean?

placer miner means "a miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging".

Is placer miner a common word?

placer miner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.