单词 | placer miner |
例句 | Bond, who has been working for the Yukon Geological Survey since 1997, is on his periodic rounds, visiting placer miners, looking at their operations and chatting about what they’re finding. 125 years after gold was discovered in the Yukon, we ventured up to Dawson City. Here’s what it looks like now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Methods of the California placer miner were used by the Chicago police in recovering the valuables lost in the mad rush for safety by the Iroquois theater fire victims. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Esmond had the prejudices that occasionally characterize men of his station, and it seemed to him distinctly unfitting that the Gold Commissioner's daughter should patronize, as he expressed it, a placer miner. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z "Colorado School of Mines—five good jobs within two years in Montana—later, placer miner, 'notorious gambler,' and—" he included himself and the interior of the cabin in an expressive gesture. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z In the California Debris Commission Act, operative since 1893, Congress imposed a straight charge on placer miners for the privilege of emptying their refuse into the streams. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z Water is the great agent of the placer miner; it is the element of his power; its amount is the measure of his work, and its cost is the measure of his profit. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining There were old "placer miners" among them, and they all declared that it was just the place in which they would have expected a "bonanza." Two Arrows A Story of Red and White Yes," said Ingleby gravely, "if she will have me, which I am afraid is far from certain; but I must make myself more than a placer miner first. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z And few of the fur traders ever lived to guess the rush of the placer miners of 1862 and 1863 into this same bonanza—right where we are camping now, on the old Robbers’ Trail. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri In this deposit there was enough flour-gold to enable any good placer miner to make days’ wages by rocking the rich streaks along the bars and banks. The Man from the Bitter Roots The purpose of all placer miners is not to catch all the gold in the dirt which they wash, but to catch the greatest possible quantity within a given time. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining Bendigo yielded enormously to the placer miners of the early days. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent However, he shook off the notion as untenable, for there would be, he knew, a distinction between a placer miner and the Gold Commissioner's daughter even in that land of rock and snow. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z In Brazil the gold placer miners threw away the glassy pebbles as worthless and the black slaves used them as counters in their card games. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains was once covered with the camps of thousands of placer miners. The Western United States A Geographical Reader The placer miner throws the dirt into the water, which then does the work; whereas the pulverizing of rock is a nice operation, requiring constant attention. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining The placer miners, however, have no use for gold that rests in quartz veins and has to be obtained by the aid of costly stamping mills. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality We made our customary early start, and while saddling up that morning, Flood and the two placer miners packed the beef on their two pack horses, first cutting off enough to last us several days. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Bill was an experienced placer miner, so it was not many days before he was asked to help in the actual cleaning of the sluices. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories The four-thirty-five train came in its own time, and brought the two missing placer miners. Good Indian By the time Ah Foo had served him his solitary supper in the dinkey he had quite forgotten the incident of the mysterious placer miners. A Fool for Love Together in the broiling sun, half buried under bank or in the river-beds, they go through the rough evolution of the placer miner's art. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Two of the placer miners accompanied us back to the trail, both riding good saddle horses and leading two others under pack saddles. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days But such old California placer miners as chanced to hear of it lost no time in hitting the trail. The Winds of Chance The placer miners toiled at furious pace all during the summer and fall. Down the Mother Lode |
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