This report provides details on field activities in placer geology conducted by the Surficial Geology Unit of the British Columbia Geological Survey Branch. In 1989. studies of gold-hearing placer deposits at active mines were undertaken with the objective of identifying geological criteria useful for recognizing placer potential. This research was continued in I990 and a total of over 60 diffe...

This report provides details on field activities in placer geology conducted by the Applied Geochemistry and Surficia1 Geology Section of the British Columbia Geological Survey Branch. I n 1989, the provincial government expanded the area open to placer mining substantially, and the need for new exploration techniques in these regions was recognized. Studies of gold-hearing placer deposits ...

In this paper, we propose a fast placer for FPGA placement on a new commercial hierarchical FPGA device. The novelty of this research lies in the application of a multilevel V-shape optimization flow including an architecture related cluster process and a constructive placement. The new placer can handle large-scale FPGA placement problem quickly. Experimental results show that the proposed pla...

Place labeling is the process of giving semantic labels to locations, such as home, work, and school. For a particular person, these labels can be computed automatically based on features of that person’s visits to these locations. A previous system called Placer used the person’s demographic data and the timing of their visits to label places with a learned decision tree. We developed Placer++...

The area underlain by the Barkerville Terrane has an important exploration and mining history dating from the discovery of placer gold on Keithley Creek in 1860. Placer gold production peaked in the 1860s, but continues at a modest scale to the present time. Lode gold production came mainly from the Wells mining camp, located near some of the richest placer streams in the district, between 1933...

In this paper we study the correlation between wirelength and routability for standard-cell placement problem, under the fixed-die place-androute environment. We present a placement tool with better routability for designs with high row utilization. Compared to a well-known industrial placement tool, our placer produces placements with equal or better routability, 13.2% better half-perimeter wi...

This account gives new data on the composition of gold from various lodes and placers in southwestern British Columbia. This research is a continuation of work reported in a 1986 paper (Knight and McTaggart, 1986). This account repeats some of the introductory material of the earlier paper in order to clarify the present report. A main objective of this work is to characterize gold by its suite...

This paper repom on the preliminary results of an investigation of the Quaternary and placer geology of the Atlin mining district in northwest British Columbia. The area was selected for study because it supports the second largest placer mining industry in the province and has a long history of placer gold production. In addition, dwindling reserves in recent :years have resulted in the sh...