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A brief report on placer mining that provides background information to those readers with little or no knowledge of placer mining. Some of the topics discussed in this report are as follows: - What is placer mining? - Characteristics of gold - Placer deposits:: where are they found? - Operations:: medium and large - Permafrost - Buying and selling gold - Rules and regulations - Use of land and trees - Water use regulations - Fineness of Yukon placer gold - Staking guide - Excerpts from the Yukon Placer Mining Act

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Yukon Geological Survey publication metadata	HTML		https://data.geology.gov.yk.ca/Reference/42314
Original metadata (https://open.yukon.ca)	HTML		https://open.yukon.ca/information/fdba3baf-a005-4c4f-a608-2d36c20c9681
Report	PDF		https://ygsftp.gov.yk.ca/publications/yplacer/yuk_placer_%20mining.pdf

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