The idea is exploded that auriferous lodes necessarily improve in value with depth. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The place which I know as auriferous is some miles distant, the way rugged. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
You know something of what I think you call auriferous geology. From Wordnik.com. [The Desert Valley] Reference
This "auriferous" town is indeed a marvellous place, lying on the crest of a hill at an elevation of 5,000 feet above the level of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Tour in South Africa] Reference
Observe carefully the auriferous sunsets among the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870] Reference
Our golden glow blossoms in all of its auriferous splendor, the. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
Yuba below Timbuctoo, where the auriferous depositions disappear. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The explorers came upon an auriferous discovery. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 16, 2007] Reference
Erroneous ideas of richness of auriferous dirt resulting therefrom. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Erroneous ideas of the richness of auriferous dirt resulting therefrom. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
The extraction of gold from auriferous rock is also known to the natives. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Or had an exceptionally heavy torrent really washed down auriferous “tailings”?. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Time was far too valuable to waste on domestic affairs, for the auriferous gravel was patchy. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
The miners call by this name the wooded mountains where they go in search of auriferous sands. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
This, of course, gives strangers a very erroneous idea of the average richness of auriferous dirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
The magnetic sand bore a tantalizing resemblance to the highly auriferous black sand of Ekaterinburg. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
California, reaches the conclusion that the auriferous gravels of the Pacific are all of the Tertiary Age. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
African Ghats did not prove auriferous; both fulfil all the required conditions, and both await actual discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Nor is the surrounding mass of slate in which this vein is inclosed without abundant evidences of a highly auriferous character. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
Here sapphires are found in glacial auriferous gravels while sluicing for gold, and until now have been considered only a by-product. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference
It is here that, in later days, the gold-mining activity proceeds, as almost everywhere there are believed to be rich auriferous deposits. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
There were few villages, and few inhabitants, the country differing widely from the auriferous lands of Colorado many leagues to the south. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
We would say in this connection that the auriferous gravels of California have been the object of a very careful research by Prof. Whitney. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
When the gold fever broke out he was one of the first to seek his fortune in that auriferous country bordering on the Pacific, in California. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
As if to emphasise the motive of his choice, if motive there was, he selected the pre-auriferous period for the Australian parts of his stories. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
We need not give in detail his arguments, but he reaches the conclusion that the auriferous gravels of the Pacific slope represent the whole of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
It glowed in the molten sunlight, shone in the soft satin of a woman's skin; the very dust rose in auriferous clouds from the wooden-wheeled ox-carts. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
At length, during the latter part of the day, they reached the bank of a dry creek which disclosed strata similar to the auriferous gravels of California. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Tested in England, it proved to be pure lead, a metal so rare that some metallurgists have doubted its existence: the finds have been mostly confined to auriferous lands. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
M. Marie was strolling near the old furnaces to the north-east of the fort where, in 1877, he had picked up an auriferous specimen, unfortunately lost before it reached Cairo. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Veins 14 and 16 and associated subsidiary conjugate auriferous structures. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
Lindsay's journal the geologist to the expedition pronounced the country auriferous. From Wordnik.com. [Spinifex and Sand] Reference
The drilling discovered two large auriferous fluvial channels that meander just below the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
Another source states that "Some have supposed Havilah to be the same as the auriferous Colchis of the Ancients". From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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