Problem was, the Venezuelan government had already cut a deal for the property with Placer Dome.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In an instant The Forbes Global 2000 ranking had a new top 50 placer.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Crystallex continued its claim in Venezuelan courts even as Placer Dome abandoned the project and the government renationalized it.

FORBES: Gold Rush

Placer Dome's earlier efforts at battling lymphatic filariasis, a horrible parasitic infection, led to a 20-fold reduction in cases.

ECONOMIST: Companies and health

Placer Dome has joined Rio Tinto and three other mining houses to form the World Alliance for Community Health.

ECONOMIST: Companies and health

He is a former player for the Auburn (Calif.) Placer High Hillmen, and his son is one of the Placer players.

FORBES: Football Dads Pummel Shirtless, Saggy-Pantsed Interloper on Field At High School Game

Dines likes, among others, mining concerns Placer Dome (nyse: PDG - news - people ) and Hecla Mines (nyse: HL - news - people ).

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We are between a rock and a hard placer.

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Sacramento County and Placer County wobble in between.

ECONOMIST: Urban sprawl

Rick van Nieuwenhuyse, a onetime exploration executive at Placer Dome, told me four years ago that by 2012 his NovaGold Resources would be pulling 700, 000 ounces of gold out of the ground, mostly from Donlin Creek and Galore Creek.

FORBES: Mining The Hedge Funds

The Oct. 26 Colfax-Placer football game in Colfax, Calif. was delayed slightly when a man with droopy trousers and no shirt entered the field, aimlessly walked around, picked up the football, and then got the snot knocked out of him by a father of one of Placer players.

FORBES: Football Dads Pummel Shirtless, Saggy-Pantsed Interloper on Field At High School Game