The Gold Deposits in Australia: Their Discovery, Development and Geognosy, with a Disquisition on the Origin of Gold in Placer-deposits and in Quartz-veinstonesLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 484 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
afterwards alluvial gold amongst appeared aqueous auriferous auriferous quartz veins Bathurst Bendigo California cattle character claim Colonial Secretary Committee considerable Creek Davison diggers diggings discovered discovery of gold district doubt drift evidence examined existence of gold explorations fact favour fissures formation gentlemen geological geologist Gold Commissioner gold deposits gold discovery gold grains gold in Australia gold-bearing gold-diggers gold-fields gold-mining Goodgood Government granite Hargraves Hargraves's honour hornblendic igneous labour land liquid Lister mass matrix miles miners mining Mokelumne Hill molten nature never Nugget observations obtained Ophir opinion pebbles Peel River persons placer deposits pounds precious metal present probably proved quantity quartz bands quartz-veins R. I. Murchison rich River rocks schists scientific sheep Silurian Sir Roderick Murchison Slate Range slates South Wales specimens surface Sydney theory tion Turon veinstones Victoria visible gold W. B. Clarke washing Wellington White Hills
Popular passages
Page 225 - The rock, when exposed, appears to be primitive granite, inclining to gneiss, with a portion of hornblende and frequently mica. The soil is red and remarkably ferruginous, in many places apparently of great depth. The gold lies, for the most part, in a stratum of rounded pebbles and gravel called cascalhao, immediately incumbent on the solid rock.
Page 234 - Sir, I am directed by the Right Honourable the Governor in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 16th of August last, applying for employment in some situation in the Public Service.
Page 44 - ... transactions, and created no demand for currency. Within that short period our people have bought from government a territory as large as the whole of England and Wales, and, taken together, far more fertile by nature. This seems incredible, yet the returns show it. Suppose all this to have been bought at the minimum price of a dollar and a quarter per acre; and suppose the value to be increased in the common ratio in which we know the value of land is increased, by such purchase, and by the...
Page 291 - After travelling a distance of about fifteen miles, I found myself in the country that I was so anxiously longing to behold again. My recollection of it had not deceived me. The resemblance of its formation to that of California could not be doubted or mistaken. I felt myself surrounded by gold; and with tremulous anxiety panted for the moment of trial, when my magician's wand should transform this trackless wilderness into a region of countless wealth. Still one difficulty seemed to present itself....
Page 383 - ... and on the sides of the hills, but when this is the case their origin can always be traced to deposits existing on the tops of the surrounding hills, from which they have been brought down by the action of the causes now at work. As we ascend towards the axis of the chain, these deposits become more extensive, and at a distance of twenty or thirty miles from the lower hills, they are found occupying the crests of...
Page 292 - This," I exclaimed to my guide, "is a memorable day in the history of New South Wales. I shall be a baronet, you will be knighted, and my old horse will be stuffed, put into a glass-case, and sent to the British Museum!
Page 383 - The extent of the diluvial deposits is commensurate, or nearly so, with that of the gold-bearing region, in that part of the country which I have examined. They are found in a belt of land from thirty to sixty miles broad, and running parallel with the axis of the range ; and, from facts that I have ascertained from others, I have no doubt but that they exist throughout all the goldbearing region, both north and south. These diluvial deposits are met with as we advance towards the lower hills of...
Page 384 - At other points, the whole series consists of conglomerates and soft friable sandstone. In the lower strata, quartzose conglomerates, with an argillaceous cement or loose quartzose gravel always prevails with large boulders of quartz, weighing frequently two or three tons, having their surface worn smooth and the angles rounded. The deposits of these heavier rocks have been formed on spots which were evidently lower than the level of the surrounding rocks; whilst on those parts which were higher...
Page 86 - In reply to your letter of the 3rd instant, I am directed by the Governor to inform you that His Excellency cannot say more at present than that the remuneration for the discovery of gold on Crown land...