Editing Placer mining (section)

==Examples==
* The [[Witwatersrand Basin]] in South Africa is an example of a placer deposit, as it is a three billion-year-old, alluvial sedimentary basin containing at least 70 ore minerals.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chamber of Mines of South Africa|url=http://www.chamberofmines.org.za/sa-mining/gold}}</ref>
* The [[Fraser Canyon Gold Rush]] prompted in 1858 the incorporation of [[Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866)]].
* The [[Klondike Gold Rush]] began in 1896 when nuggets of gold were found in the Klondike region of [[Alaska]] and the Canadian [[Yukon Territory]]. The nuggets were found in running water, making the Klondike Gold deposit an [[alluvial]] placer mining deposit, which it soon became when 30,000 gold-seekers trekked to the region.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/klgo/learn/goldrush.htm|title=What Was the Klondike Gold Rush? – Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)|website=www.nps.gov}}</ref>
* The area around [[Valdez Creek]] as almost exclusively been placer mined since 1897.<ref name=suhey>{{cite thesis |title= Exploring Competing Gold System Models in the Valdez Creek Region, Clearwater Mountains, Alaska |last=Suhey |first=Jane |degree=MSc |date= December 2023 |publisher=University of Alaska Fairbanks |url=https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/14973 |page=7-12}}</ref>