The gold-seeker's manual / By David T. Ansted.

  • David T. Ansted
Date:
1849
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Credit: The gold-seeker's manual / By David T. Ansted. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    others in order. Tims, as the rate of progress of currents of water is greatly influenced hy the form of land and the nature of the country over which it passes, there will always be some spots where a slight check will take place, and where, therefore, rocks or metals that have just been transported so far, and were nearly about to sink, will be collected and accumulated. ]\Iore or less, however, there will be a deposit of all kinds of materials in different parts, especially where the water has passed over the land with variable force and in various directions. Rocks containing veins in which gold is but spa- ringly distributed and by no means repaying the cost of working, may, by this natural process of sifting on a large scale, at length become suffi- ciently rich as alluvia to yield a large return of profit by careful selection of a working place and good mechanical contrivances. AVe will now quote from the great work on Russia, by Sir Roderick Murchison, a paragraph explaining the geological conditions of the gold deposits of the Ural. Gold-bearing alluvia have been found at vari- ous spots nearly all along the eastern flank of the Ural chain, both in the lateral or north and south, and in the transverse, or east and west valleys, formed amid the rocks which we have formerly described. These auriferous alluvia, especially rich
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