Definition of "placers" [placers]

• Plural form of placer. (noun)

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• "For, at the age of thirteen, accompanying his father, he had formed one of the small band of gold seekers who fought their way to the "placers" of Forty-mile Creek years before the great Yukon rush."
• "It was one of the "placers," such as have since proved so productive in different parts of the world."
• "The "placers" or Gold Mines of California, are located in the valley of the Sacramento, in the northern part of that new territory."