PLACER MINING

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FOR}IED'
HOW.PLACER DEPOSITS HAVE BEEN
gold need not have a
The man who,goes in search of placer
as an expert minquali{y
profountl knowledge of geoiogy, nor
prospecting and
eratogist, But if t is to avoid much needless
"
some clear iclea of
waste oil time and money, he should have
he is likely to
how piacers originate, the different types that
of gold'
source
a
as
eocourrter, urd th"i" comparative value
thousands
of
Geolcgicai theory, proved true by the history
of miners'
legions
of
experience
of placer deposits, and the
primar-"*
not
secondar-v'
ur...ta that placers are always of

of rock and
origin. They are unconsolidated accumulations
intl' gravef in
mineral fragments, with boulders, clay, sand'
perlent:1ge' Nature
which the gold forms but an inflnitesimal
cr iode ln the bevein
.rJut" a plaier as she did' a
aJ
".,
have been
ginaing the gokl existed in the vein it-'eli' It' may
bo1dI1' on a hillside'
ir.r.rr, in a single vein that outcropped or network of small
series
or thr.r:e ma.v have been a whole
..\hich indivi,ruaily had only smal1 amounts of gold'
Veins,
rock and
Tlirough countless ages the surrounding country
by rain'
away
uein material were broken down and eroded
resistfrost, and chemical action' The golC, being chemically
in the
step
first
the
was
This
,'ni and heavy, was left behind'
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