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((Short description|Technique of mining stream bed deposits for minerals))
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[[File:Henry Sandham - The Cradle.jpg|thumb|19th-century miner pouring water into a [[rocker box]] which, when rocked back and forth, will help separate gold dust from the [[alluvium]]]]
'''Placer mining''' (((IPAc-en|ˈ|p|l|æ|s|ər)))<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/placer-mining |title=Placer mining (US)|publisher=American English Dictionary|access-date=January 9, 2015))</ref> is the mining of stream bed ([[Alluvium|alluvial]]) deposits for [[mineral]]s.<ref name="The Century illustrated monthly magazine; 1883 Jan., p. 325">((Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/placer-mining|title=Placer mining &#124; Techniques, Processes & Equipment &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com))</ref> This may be done by [[open-pit mining|open-pit]] (also called open-cast mining) or by various surface excavating equipment or tunneling equipment.

Placer mining is frequently used for [[precious metal]] deposits (particularly [[gold]]) and [[gemstone]]s, both of which are often found in [[Alluvium|alluvial]] deposits—deposits of sand and gravel in modern or ancient [[stream bed]]s, or occasionally glacial deposits. The metal or gemstones, having been moved by stream flow from an original source such as a vein, are typically only a minuscule portion of the total deposit. Since gems and heavy metals like gold are considerably denser than [[sand]], they tend to accumulate at the base of placer deposits.

Placer deposits can be as young as a few years old, such as the Canadian Queen Charlotte beach gold placer deposits, or billions of years old like the Elliot Lake uranium paleoplacer within the [[Huronian Supergroup]] in Canada.<ref>((Cite journal|last=A.D. McCracken, E. Macey, J.M. Monro Gray, and G.S. Nowlan|date=March 1, 2018|title=Placer Gold|url=https://www.gac.ca/PopularGeoscience/factsheets/PlacerGold_e.pdf|journal=Geological Association of Canada))</ref>

The containing material in an alluvial placer mine may be too loose to safely mine by tunnelling, though it is possible where the ground is [[permafrost|permanently frozen]]. Where water under pressure is available, it may be used to mine, move, and separate the precious material from the deposit, a method known as [[hydraulic mining]], hydraulic [[Sluice#Placer mining applications|sluicing]] or [[hydraulicking]].

==Etymology==
The word placer derives from the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''placer'', meaning shoal or alluvial/sand deposit, from ''plassa'' (place) from [[Medieval Latin]] ''placea'' (place) the origin word for "place" and "plaza" in English.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/placers |title=Placers etymology and definition |publisher=Thefreedictionary.com |access-date=July 20, 2013))</ref> The word in Spanish is thus  derived from ''placea'' and refers directly to an [[alluvial]] or glacial deposit of sand or gravel.
[[File:A placer mine at Alma in 1880 - DPLA - d36682f6190c8624b01556dfa53bc802 (cropped).jpg|alt=A placer mine in Alma, CO in 1880|thumb|A placer mine in [[Alma, Colorado]] in 1880]]
An alternative etymology derives the English word from [[Spanish language in the Americas|American Spanish]] ''placer'' (placer, sandbank), from earlier ''placel'', apparently from obsolete [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ''placel'' (placer, sandbank).<ref>((cite web|url=https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/placer |title=placer in Wiktionary |publisher=en.wiktionary.org |access-date=August 18, 2019))</ref>

==History==
[[File:De re metallica p 282.jpg|thumb|Plate depicting placer mining from the 1556 book ''[[De re metallica]]'']]
Placers supplied most of the gold for a large part of the ancient world. Hydraulic mining methods such as [[hushing]] were used widely by the Romans across their empire, but especially in the gold fields of northern [[Spain]] after its conquest by [[Augustus]] in 25 BC. One of the largest sites was at [[Las Médulas]], where seven 30 mile long [[Aqueduct (water supply)|aqueduct]]s were used to work the [[alluvial]] gold deposits through the first century AD.  ((Efn|Inclusions of [[platinum-group]] metals in a very large proportion of gold items indicate that the gold was largely derived from placer or alluvial deposits. Platinum group metals are seldom found with gold in hardrock reef or vein deposits.))

In [[North America]], placer mining was famous in the context of several [[gold rush]]es, particularly the [[California Gold Rush]] and the [[Colorado Gold Rush]], the [[Fraser Canyon Gold Rush]] and the [[Klondike Gold Rush]].

Placer mining continues in many areas of the world as a source of diamonds, industrial minerals and metals, gems (in [[Myanmar]] and [[Sri Lanka]]), platinum, and of gold (in [[Yukon]], [[Alaska]] and [[British Columbia]]).

==Deposits==
((main|Placer deposit))
An area well protected from the flow of water is a great location to find gold. Gold is very dense and is often found in a stream bed.  Many different gold deposits are dealt with in different ways.  Placer deposits attract many prospectors because their costs are very low.  There are many different places gold could be placed, such as a residual, alluvial, and a bench deposit.

===Residual===
Residual deposits are more common where there has been weathering on rocks and where there hasn't been water.  They are deposits which have not been washed away yet or been moved.  The residual usually lies at the site of the lode.  This type of deposit undergoes rock weathering.

===Alluvial===
Alluvial or eluvial deposits are the most common type of placer gold, and are often the richest. They contain pieces of gold that have been washed away from the lode by the force of water, and have been deposited in sediment in or near watercourses or former watercourses. Therefore, they are mostly found in valleys or flood plains.

===Bench===
Bench deposits are created when gold reaches a stream bed.  Gold accumulations in an old stream bed that are high are called bench deposits.  They can be found on higher slopes that drain into valleys.  Dry stream beds (benches) can be situated far from other water sources and can sometimes be found on mountaintops.  Today, many miners focus their activities on bench deposits.

=== Deep leads ===
Deep leads are created when a former stream bed is covered over by later sediments or by igneous rock from a volcanic eruption. Examples existed in the goldfields of [[Gulgong]] and [[Creswick, Victoria|Creswick]] in Australia. The gold bearing gravel is accessed by [[Shaft sinking#Mine shafts|shafts]] and drives similar to underground mining techniques but is typically processed as if alluvial gold.<ref>((Cite web |title=Gulgong – Gold Rush Heritage |url=http://www.geomaps.com.au/scripts/gulgong.php |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=www.geomaps.com.au))</ref><ref>((Cite web|last=Design|first=UBC Web|title=Buried Rivers of Gold Heritage Trail ((!)) Business & Tourism Creswick Inc.|url=https://www.creswick.net/things-to-do/buried-rivers-of-gold-heritage-trail/|access-date=2021-01-22|website=www.creswick.net|language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web |title=Buried Rivers of Gold ((!)) Creswick |url=https://www.buriedriversofgold.org/ |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=Buried Rivers Gold |language=en))</ref> The heat associated with an igneous lava flow, in some cases, altered the gold bearing gravel so that it needed to be crushed first to extract the gold; an example of this kind of deep lead was found at [[Forest Reefs, New South Wales|Forest Reefs]], also in Australia.<ref>((Cite news |date=1900-04-21 |title=The Forest Reefs Gold Field. II. |pages=41 |work=Australian Town and Country Journal |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71379404 |access-date=2023-05-15))</ref> If vegetation was buried along with the old stream, by a volcanic eruption, the effect of heat and decay upon that buried vegetation can result in the presence of harmful amounts of [[carbonic acid|carbonic acid gas]] (((chem2|H2CO3|auto=on))), as occurred in the deep lead deposit at Creswick.<ref>((Cite web |title=The Dark Labyrinth |url=https://www.buriedriversofgold.org/the-dark-labyrinth |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=Buried Rivers Gold |language=en))</ref>

==Methods==
A number of methods are used to mine placer gold and gems, both in terms of extracting the minerals from the ground, and separating it from the non-gold or non-gems.

===Panning===
((Main|Gold panning))

[[File:Placer gold-mining, Korea, c1900.jpg|thumb|Panning for gold in [[Korea]], c. 1900]]
The simplest technique to extract gold from placer ore is [[Gold panning|panning]]. This technique has been dated back to at least the Roman Empire.<ref>((Cite book|title=Roman Deep Vein Mining|last=Cohen Duncan|first=Lynn|year=1999))</ref> In panning, some mined ore is placed in a large metal or plastic pan, combined with a generous amount of [[water]], and agitated so that the gold particles, being of higher [[density]] than the other material, settle to the bottom of the pan.  The lighter [[gangue]] material such as sand, mud and gravel are then washed over the side of the pan, leaving the gold behind.  Once a placer deposit is located by gold panning, the miner usually shifts to equipment that can treat volumes of sand and gravel more quickly and efficiently. Gold panning was commonly used on its own during the [[California Gold Rush|California gold rush]];<ref>((Cite book|title=Western Mining|url=https://archive.org/details/westernmininginf0000youn|url-access=registration|last=Young|first=Otis|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=1970|location=Oklahoma|pages=[https://archive.org/details/westernmininginf0000youn/page/108 108]–110|isbn=9780806109091 ))</ref> however, it is now rarely used for profit since even an expert gold prospector can only process approximately one cubic yard of material for every 10 hours of work.<ref name=":0">((Cite book|title=Methods of Placer Mining|last=Basque|first=G.|publisher=Heritage House|year=1999|location=Surrey, B.C.))</ref>

===Rocker===
((Main|Rocker box))
A rocker box (or "cradle") is capable of greater volume than a gold pan; however, its production is still limited when compared to other methods of placer mining. It is only capable of processing about 3 or 4 yards of gravel a day.<ref name=":0" /> It is more portable and requires less infrastructure than a sluice box, being fed not by a sluice but by hand. The box sits on rockers, which when rocked separates out the gold, and the practice was referred to as "rocking the golden baby". A typical rocker box is approximately 42 inches long, 16 inches wide and 12 inches deep with a removable tray towards the top, where gold is placed.<ref>Basque, G. (1999). Methods of placer mining. Surrey, B.C: Heritage House. p. 41</ref> The rocker was commonly used throughout North America during the early gold rush, but its popularity diminished as other methods that could handle a larger volume became more common.<ref name=":0" /> <!--maybe used in California, I'm not sure-->

===Sluice box===
((redirect|Sluice box|the general topic|sluice|the Montana park|Sluice Boxes State Park))
[[File:Blei-und-Gold.jpg|thumb|[[Riffle]]s in a sluice box. The small specks are gold, the larger ones are merely pebbles]]
[[File:Goldwaschrinne.jpg|thumb|left|A modern sluice box made of metal; in its base are the riffles used to catch gold settling to the bottom]]

The same principle may be employed on a larger scale by constructing a short [[sluice|sluice box]], with barriers along the bottom called riffles to trap the heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box.  This method better suits excavation with [[shovel]]s or similar implements to feed  ore into the device.  Sluice boxes can be as short as a few feet, or more than ten feet (a common term for one that is over six feet +/- is a "Long Tom"). While they are capable of handling a larger volume of material than simpler methods such as the rocker box or gold panning, this can come at the cost of efficiency, since conventional sluice boxes have been found to recover only about 40% of the gold that they process.<ref>((Cite journal|last=Subasinghe|first=G. K. N. S.|date=1993|title=Optimal Design of Sluice-Boxes for Fine Gold Recovery|journal=Minerals Engineering|volume=6 |issue=11|pages=1155–1165|doi=10.1016/0892-6875(93)90093-3|bibcode=1993MiEng...6.1155S ))</ref>
[[File:Placer Mines, William G. Chamberlain photo showing mining operations - DPLA - 1beeeabe4036b0295ed517fbf7614f62.jpg|thumb|Placer mines in Park County, Colorado, 1870s. A long sluice box runs along the mine.<ref>[https://pclha.cvlcollections.org/items/show/75 Park County Local History Digital Archive]</ref>]]
The sluice box was used extensively during the [[California Gold Rush|California gold rush]] for larger scale operations. When streams became increasingly depleted, the grizzly and undercurrent variants of the sluice box were developed. The grizzly is a set of parallel bars placed at a 45 degree angle over the main sluice box, which filter out larger material. The undercurrent variety includes additional, auxiliary sluice boxes where material is initially filtered. It then travels through a trough into the primary sluice box where it is filtered again. Both the grizzly and undercurrent are designed to increase efficiency, and were often used in combination.<ref name=":0" />

===Dry washing===
((main|Drywasher))
Sluicing is only effective in areas where there is a sufficient water supply, and is impractical in arid areas. Alternative methods developed that used the blowing of air to separate out gold from sand. One of the more common methods of dry washing is the Mexican dry wash. This method involves placing gravel on a riffle board with a bellows placed underneath it. The bellows is then used to blow air through the board in order to remove the lighter material from the heavier gold.<ref>((Cite book|title=Finding Gold in the Desert: the Art of Dry-Washing|last=Lynch|first=O.|year=2001))</ref> The amount of gravel that can be processed using the Mexican dry wash technique varies from 1 1/2 to 4 cubic yards per day, and can be processed at a maximum efficiency of 80%.<ref>((Cite book|title=Placer Mining in Nevada|last=Smith|first=Alfred Merrit|publisher=University of Nevada Bulletin|year=1932|location=Reno, Nevada))</ref> Another form of dry washing is "[[winnowing]]". This method was most commonly used by Spanish miners in America, and only requires a blanket and a box with a screen on the bottom. The material is first filtered through the box so only the finer material is placed onto the blanket. The material on the blanket is then flung into the air so that any breeze can blow away the lighter material and leave the gold behind. While this method is extremely simple and requires very few materials, it is also slow and inefficient.<ref name=":0" />

===Trommel===
[[File:Alaskan Trommel.jpg|thumb|Trommel at the Potato Patch, [[Yentna-Cache Creek mining district|Blue Ribbon Mine]], Alaska]]
A [[trommel]] is composed of a slightly inclined rotating metal tube (the 'scrubber section') with a screen at its discharge end. Lifter bars, sometimes in the form of bolted in angle iron, are attached to the interior of the scrubber section. The ore is fed into the elevated end of the trommel.  Water, often under pressure, is provided to the scrubber and screen sections and the combination of water and mechanical action frees the valuable minerals from the ore. The mineral bearing ore that passes through the screen is then further concentrated in smaller devices such as sluices and jigs.  The larger pieces of ore that do not pass through the screen can be carried to a waste stack by a conveyor.

===Gold dredge===
((main|Gold dredge))
[[File:Natomas-6-gold dredge-1958.jpg|thumb|The Natomas No. 6 gold dredge in operation in 1958 in [[Folsom, California]]]]
Large-scale sifting of placer gold from large volumes of alluvial deposits can be done by use of mechanical dredges. These dredges were originally very large boats capable of processing massive amounts of material; however, as the gold has become increasingly depleted in the most easily accessible areas, smaller and more maneuverable dredges have become much more common.<ref name=":0" /> These smaller dredges commonly operate by sucking water and gravel up through long hoses using a pump, where the gold can then be separated using more traditional methods such as a sluice box.<ref name=":0" />
[[File:Placer Mines, worker steaming water to assist with mining operations, early 1900s - DPLA - d69dee0966eca12491731817b30ee312.jpg|left|thumb|Placer mine worker steams water to assist with mining operations in Park County, Colorado, early 1900s<ref>[https://pclha.cvlcollections.org/items/show/73 Park County Local History Digital Archive]</ref>]]

===Underground mining===
[[File:Mining with steam points.jpg|thumb|Miners using jets of steam to melt the [[permafrost]] in an underground gold mine]]

In areas where the ground is [[permafrost|permanently frozen]], such as in Siberia, Alaska, and the Yukon, placer deposits may be mined underground.<ref name="Colliery Underground">((cite book|title=Placer Mining: A Hand-Book for Klondike and Other Miners and Prospectors|year=1897|publisher=Colliery Engineering Co.|location=Scranton, Pa.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/placermininghand00coll/page/66 66]–69|url=https://archive.org/details/placermininghand00coll))</ref> As the frozen ground is otherwise too hard and firm to mine by hand, historically fires were built so as to thaw the ground before digging it.<ref name="Colliery Underground" /> Later methods involve blasting jets of steam ("points") into the frozen deposits.

[[Placer mining#Deep leads|'''Deep leads''']] are accessed by techniques similar to conventional underground mining.

==Environmental effects==
Although this procedure is not required, the process water may be continuously recycled and the ore from which the sought-after minerals have been extracted ("the tailings") can be reclaimed.  While these recycling and reclamation processes are more common in modern placer mining operations they are still not universally done.

[[File:Panorámica de Las Médulas.jpg|thumb|View of [[Las Médulas]]]]
In earlier times the process water was not generally recycled and the spent ore was not reclaimed. The remains of a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] alluvial gold mine at [[Las Médulas]] are so spectacular as to justify the site being designated [[UNESCO World Heritage]] status.  The methods used by the Roman miners are described by [[Pliny the Elder]] in his work [[Naturalis Historia]] published in about 77 AD. The author was a [[Procurator (Roman)|Procurator]] in the region and so probably witnessed large-scale hydraulic mining of the placer deposits there. He also added that the local lake Carucedo had been heavily silted by the mining methods.

Environmental activists describe the [[hydraulic mining]] form of placer mining as environmentally destructive because of the large amounts of silt that it adds to previously clear running streams (also known as the "Dahlonega Method").<ref>((cite book |title=Dahlonega, Georgia: a brief history |first=Anne |last=Amerson |year=2006 |page=70 |publisher=History Press |isbn=9781596291300 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfoF6DtQWfMC&q=Dahlonega+Method&pg=PA70))</ref> Most placer mines today use [[settling pond]]s, if only to ensure that they have sufficient water to run their sluicing operations.

In California, from 1853 to 1884, "hydraulicking" of placers removed an enormous amount of material from the gold fields, material that was carried downstream and raised the level of portions of the [[Central Valley, California|Central Valley]] by some seven feet in affected areas and settled in long bars up to 20 feet thick in parts of [[San Francisco Bay]]. The process raised an opposition calling themselves the "Anti-Debris Association". In January 1884, the [[North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company]] case banned the flushing of debris into streams, and the hydraulic mining mania in California's gold country came to an end.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.150.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=27596|title=California's First Environmental Law |publisher= California Parks and Recreation Department|access-date= 21 April 2019))</ref>

==Examples==
* The [[Witwatersrand Basin]] in South Africa is an example of a placer deposit, as it is a 3 billion-year-old, alluvial sedimentary basin containing at least 70 ore minerals.<ref>((cite web|title=Chamber of Mines of South Africa|url=http://www.chamberofmines.org.za/sa-mining/gold))</ref>
* The [[Fraser Canyon Gold Rush]] prompted in 1858 the incorporation of [[Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866)]].
* The [[Klondike Gold Rush]] began in 1896 when nuggets of gold were found in the Klondike region of [[Alaska]] and the Canadian [[Yukon Territory]]. The nuggets were found in running water, making the Klondike Gold deposit an [[alluvial]] placer mining deposit, which it soon became when 30,000 gold-seekers trekked the region.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/klgo/learn/goldrush.htm|title=What Was the Klondike Gold Rush? - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)|first1=Mailing Address: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park P. O. Box 517|last1=Skagway|first2=AK 99840 Phone: 907 983-9200 Contact|last2=Us|website=www.nps.gov))</ref>

==See also==

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* [[Gold in California]]
* [[Gold mining in Alaska]]
* [[British Columbia gold rushes]]
* [[Gold prospecting]]
* [[Quartz reef mining]]
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==References==
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==Further reading==
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* ''Assembling California'', by John McPhee, published 1993 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New Jersey((ISBN?))
* West, Robert C. ''Colonial Placer Mining in Colombia''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1952. ((ISBN?))
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Module:Navbar/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbox (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Navbox/configuration (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Navbox/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Pagetype (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/disambiguation (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/setindex (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/softredirect (view source) (protected)
Module:Redirect hatnote (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:SDcat (view source) (protected)
Module:Side box (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Side box/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:String (view source) (protected)
Module:Unsubst (view source) (protected)
Module:WikidataIB (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:WikidataIB/nolinks (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:WikidataIB/titleformats (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Wikitext Parsing (view source) (protected)
Module:Yesno (view source) (protected)

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