lavaderon.
Obsolete.
A place for washing gold ore.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > mine by type of operation
stream-work1586
opencast?a1650
lavatory1712
lavadero1717
coffin1778
whole working1842
open cut1848
dry- or wet-diggings1849
river diggings1850
placer digging1851
placer working1867
drift mine1882
strip mine1934
1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 110 On the Descent of the Mountain..they shew'd me a Stream, where there is a rich Lavadero, or Place for washing of Gold.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 452 The gold taken out of all these Lavaderos or mines in the province of Quito.
1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire III. 414 To these mines belong three lavaderos..together having 861 troughs.
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