Definition of placer deposits

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placer deposits

The term 'placer deposits' as it applies to the area of coastlines can be defined as ' mineral deposits consisting of dense, resistant and often economically valuable minerals which have been weathered from terrigenous rocks, transported to the sea and concentrated in marine sediments by wave or current action'.

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