Placer Miner (Noun)
Meaning
A miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The placer miner spent years panning for gold in the streams of the American West.
- As a placer miner, she had to be skilled at identifying the right locations to search for valuable minerals.
- The placer miner's dredge was a complex machine that could extract gold from the gravel and soil of the riverbed.
- He worked as a placer miner during the summer months, but returned to his teaching job in the winter.
- The placer miner's discovery of a large gold nugget in the creek sparked a small gold rush in the area.