placer

A glacial or alluvial deposit of sand or gravel containing eroded particles of valuable minerals.

A place where a placer deposit is washed to extract its mineral content.

In ceramics, a workman in a pottery who places the unburned ware in the saggars and arranges the saggars in the kiln.

In minning, a place where the superficial detritus is washed for gold or other valuable minerals: a word formerly in common use in California, but now nearly obsolete.

In mining, to mine by the hydraulic process; wash out (gold) from a bank by a stream of water.

One who places, locates, or sets.

One who places or sets.

A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.

A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.

A deposit of sand or earth in a river-bed etc. which contains particles of gold or other precious minerals.