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  2. Placer mining - Wikipedia

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    Placer mining (/ ˈ p l æ s ər /) [1] is the mining of stream bed deposits for minerals. [2] This may be done by open-pit mining or by various surface excavating equipment or tunneling equipment.

  3. Gold panning - Wikipedia

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    Gold panning is a simple process. Once a suitable placer deposit is located, some alluvial deposits are scooped into a pan, where they are then wetted and loosed from attached soils by soaking, fingering, and aggressive agitation in water. This is called stratification; which helps dense materials, like gold, sink to the bottom of the pan.

  4. Puente Hills Landfill - Wikipedia

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    Puente Hills Landfill was the largest landfill in the United States, rising 500 feet (150 meters) high and covering 700 acres (2.8 km 2). [1] Originally opened in 1957 in a back canyon in the Puente Hills, the landfill was made to meet the demands of urbanization and waste-disposal east of Los Angeles.

  5. Tailings - Wikipedia

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    In mining, tailings or tails are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction of an ore.Tailings are different from overburden, which is the waste rock or other material that overlies an ore or mineral body and is displaced during mining without being processed.

  6. Suspect in California woman’s dismemberment did not serve ...

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    The District Attorney’s Offices in Placer and Amador counties wrote letters, arguing against Erby’s prison release in 2018 and again in 2021, according to Gire. Erby was denied parole in 2018 ...

  7. California Gulch - Wikipedia

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    By 1872, placer mining in California Gulch yielded more than $2,500,000, roughly equivalent to $47,674,478 today. [3] In 1876, piles of sand once considered bothersome to placer gold miners, were discovered to contain lead carbonates and were traced back to California Gulch. [4] This discovery propelled a rush of miners to the area.

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