excavation vs placer mining

excavation and placer mining both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
excavation	Yes	No	No	No
placer mining	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, placer mining is a hyponym of excavation; that is, placer mining is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than excavation:

excavation: the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
placer mining: mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging

Other hyponyms of excavation include opencast mining, strip mining, fracking, salt-working, salt working.

excavation (noun)	placer mining (noun)
the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth	mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging
the act of digging
a hole in the ground made by excavating
the site of an archeological exploration

excavation vs placer mining

excavation and placer mining both are nouns.

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