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2. Placer claim - Wikipedia

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   Gold mining is one of the most common uses for the staking of mining claims. In Alaska, state mining claims may be up to 160 acres (0.65 km 2), and there is no distinction between lode or placer claims. The boundaries of the claim must follow the 4 cardinal directions, with an exception being adjustments for existing valid claims.

3. General Mining Act of 1872 - Wikipedia

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   The reminder of the placer-claim, or any placer-claim not embracing any vein or lode claim, shall be paid for at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, together with all costs of proceedings;. [15] [unreliable source?] It set the price of the land claim to range $2.50 to $5.00 per acre. This price set by law has remained the same ...

4. Gold mining in Nevada - Wikipedia

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   The Nevada mining industry supported an average 14,787 direct employees in 2018, with about 75,000 additional jobs related to providing goods and services needed by the mining industry. The average pay for mining industry employees during this time was $97,600 per year, the third highest average private employment sector in the state. [2]

5. Recreational gold mining - Wikipedia

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   Today this is not so, and individuals can search and retrieve minerals with the acquisition of a miners permit that can be bought from the relevant Mining Department. Today, recreational gold mining can be carried out in several areas such as Warrego [ 1 ] near the town of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, Clermont [ 2 ] in Queensland ...

6. Silver mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Butte started as a placer gold camp in 1864, and the placers were exhausted by 1867. But in 1874 prospectors discovered silver veins. Butte flourished as a silver-mining district until miners tunneled into large copper veins in 1882. From then until the 1980s, Butte was primarily a copper-mining district, but with a lot of silver as a byproduct ...

7. 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.