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Main Title Evolution of California's Placer Mining Landscape.
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle, WA. Region X.
Year Published 1998
Report Number EPA/910/R-98/003
Stock Number PB2017-100828
Additional Subjects Alaska ; Placer mining ; Environmental effects ; Water quality ; Mines ; Metalliferous mineral deposits ; Ore deposits ; Metals ; Placers ; Mine wastes ; Surface waters ; Water sampling ; Water chemistry ; Turbidity ; Dissolved solids ; Suspended solids ; Water temperature ; Hardness(Water) ; Electric conductivity ; pH factor ; Ecological concentration
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NTIS  PB2017-100828 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
This report shows that hand placering for gold is a vanishing frontier enterprise from which it is now next to impossible to extract a living. Soon after the depression set in thousands of unemployed with their families attempted small-scale placer mining as a source of livelihood. "^ During the early years of the rush to the creeks the number of would-be miners failing to find gold was 20 times greater than the number of miners who had been successful in recovering an amount sufficient for even one sale.