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 authority 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 ferous fissures formation gentlemen geological geologist Gold Commissioner gold deposits gold discovery gold in Australia gold-bearing gold-diggers gold-fields gold-mining Goodgood Government granite Hargraves Hargraves's honour hornblendic igneous labour land lava Lister mass matrix matter miles mineral mining Mokelumne Hill molten nature never Nugget observations obtained Ophir opinion origin of gold 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 Sir Roderick Murchison Slate Range slates South Wales specimens surface Sydney theory tion Turon veinstones Victoria W. B. Clarke washing Wellington White Hills
Popular passages
Page 376 - May instant, declaring the rights of the Crown in respect to Gold found in its natural place of deposit within the territory of New South Wales, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to establish the following Provisional Regulations, under which Licenses may be obtained, to search for, and remove the same: 1.
Page 4 - Guinevere, according to the mediaeval legends, suffered abduction from time to time as a matter of course, and equally as a matter of course was rescued by Lancelot. A modern reader can see how the stories rose around "the much-abducted queen." Mediaeval singers found in "King Arthur and his Court...
Page 280 - I took the pick and scratched the gravel off a schistose dyke, which ran across the creek at right angles with its side; and, with the trowel, I dug a panful of earth, which I washed in the water-hole. The first trial produced a little piece of gold. "Here it is!
Page 42 - ... 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 368 - ... many points of resemblance. In the lower valleys, and flats, between the ranges of the lower hills they appear to consist of beds of gravel, containing occasional boulders of quartz, and the harder rocks. On the elevated flats higher up in the mountains, the surface of these deposits is generally covered by a reddish loam, mixed with small gravel, whilst reposing on the bed rock, and a few inches above it, is found a stratum containing large boulders and gravel, the boulders being principally...
Page 376 - Gold Metal or Ore, without having been duly authorized in that behalf by Her Majesty's Colonial Government, will be prosecuted, both criminally and civilly, as the Law allows : And I further...
Page 280 - 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 215 - The rock, where it is 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 406 - Yet, although such may be the general order of the strata, nothing is more striking than the irregularity of the proportions in which they are found to be distributed, the variety of inclination observable within a limited space, or the unequal depth at which any given stratum may be found to lie below the surface. In some workings the pipe-clay may be reached at the depth of ten or twelve feet : in others, not at thirty or upwards.
Page 279 - 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....