placer mining

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   mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging

   Broadermining

Questions about placer mining

What does placer mining mean?

placer mining means "mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging".

Is placer mining a common word?

placer mining 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.