Sentence examples for placer from inspiring English sources

See also placer mining.

The short stories in El principio del placer (1972; "The Pleasure Principle") are united by the recurrent theme of anguish.

Offshore placer deposits of precious metals, metallic ores (e.g., of iron, tin, titanium, and chromium), and gemstones are found at various points along the Atlantic coastline, particularly off the southeastern United States, Wales, Brazil, Mauritania, and Namibia.

Other mineral products include antimony, tungsten, mercury, phosphorus, silver, placer gold, cinnabar (the ore of mercury), and manganese.

Offshore beach and placer deposits are mined by wire line or dredge.

Although there are several different types of placer deposits, the two most economically important are stream and beach placers.

Both UBS and Credit Suisse have plugged the "one bank" model, whereby seekers and placers of investment-banking products are matched internally.

Although hydraulic mining is sometimes used to mine coal underground, its primary application is on the surface, where it is a practical way to mine relatively fine-grained, unconsolidated material from placers, tailings, alluvium, and lateritic deposits.

Native tantalum metal with some niobium and traces of manganese and gold occurs sparingly in Russia in placers in the Ural Mountains and possibly the Altai Mountains in Central Asia.

Much of the world's current demand for thorium metal and its compounds is satisfied by mining placers along India's Malabar Coast, where wave action deposits monazite as a coarse yellow-to-brown sand on beaches.

Typical minerals recovered in placers are gold, tin, platinum, diamonds, titaniferous and ferrous iron sands, gemstones (rubies, emeralds, and sapphires), and abrasives (rutile, zircon, garnet, and monazite).