I have already spoken of the mode in which auriferous lode-stuff was treated in early times--i.
They imagined that the breakers were disintegrating some abnormally rich auriferous reefs out at sea, and that the resultant gold was washed up on the beach.
Assays of auriferouslode material should always be checked by the results of trials on large quantities.
I have found it practicable to produce most natural looking specimens of auriferous quartz from stone which previously, as proved by assay, contained no gold whatever.
Now they were going back to civilization with many ounces of gold, and papers relating to auriferous claims, to invoke the aid of capital before they once more turned their faces toward the frozen north.
The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
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.
Or had an exceptionally heavy torrent really washed down auriferous "tailings"?
Defn: A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia.
It also occurs associated with other metallic substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined with tellurium in the minerals petzite, calaverite, sylvanite, etc.
Mining) Defn: A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
During the last century large quantities of gold were taken from the surface-workings, which are now exhausted, or only afford a miserable living to the natives who treat the auriferous earths in a very primitive way.
Other exhibits included specimens of gold-bearing rock from Lepanto and Infantas, and compact auriferous quartz from the celebrated gold-pits of Suyuc near Mancayan.
The ore at the latter place is auriferous iron pyrites, called by the natives Inga.
There were enough surprises there to turn the faces of the whole directorate of the Erie Auriferous Consolidated as yellow as the gold they mined.
In fact, I am already getting notes together for a paper for the Pan-Geological under the heading, Auriferous Excretions in the Devonian Strata: a Working Hypothesis.
It was some months after the collapse of the Erie Auriferous that the university conferred upon Tomlinson the degree of Doctor of Letters in absentia.
For here again Gildas, senior professor of geology, was working among his blue flames at a final test on which depended the fate of the Erie Auriferous Consolidated and all connected with it.
Thus had the Erie Auriferous Consolidated broken in a tidal wave over financial circles.
The first sign of it had been that he had utterly refused to allow the Erie Auriferous Consolidated (as the friends of geology called themselves) to take over the top half of the Tomlinson farm.
Conceive every one of these persons daily digging his own grave in this auriferous region: how long will it take them to go over the whole surface and exhaust its treasures?
Granting that the veins of gold, when they go deep, are embedded in very hard rock, what is to be said to the cropping out of the veins over the vast extent of the auriferous Rocky Mountains?
I do not refer here to the finds of skulls and implements in the auriferous gravels of Western America.
Its richest mines are about Huylas and Turma, Most of the rivers of the Andes bring down auriferous sands.
Phrygia, and nearly touching the valley of the Pactolus, so famous for its auriferous sands.
In the centre of the continent, upon which so much light has been recently thrown by Livingston, Stanley, and others, rocks are to be met with quartz veins containing gold, and thus auriferous alluvium has been formed.
A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia.
It occurs as gold dust in the sands of various rivers, and in the alluvial soil of auriferous districts, from both of which it is obtained by the simple process of washing.
This method (by fusion) does not answer well with auriferous copper pyrites or ores very poor in gold.
Horses and mules were scarce in Rocky Canyon, and he attempted to utilize Billy by making him draw a small cart, laden with auriferous earth, from his claim to the river.
The land thereabouts is of a reddish hue and of a particularlyauriferous quality.
The transport of letters and gold is carried on by an express postal service; and the auriferous riches of the district attract a considerable influx of visitors.
We saw enough to prove that Rhodesia is an Auriferous Country.
At any rate we have seen sufficient to prove that Rhodesia is an auriferous country though as yet no one knows what rank it will take among gold-producing lands.
Thirty miles from this place is situated the auriferous country of Tu'k Cho, where two Chinese companies have bought the monopoly of the mines.
The metal is obtained by washing the sand extracted from wells about twenty feet deep, at which depth auriferous quartz is usually met, but working as they do the miners have no means of getting ore from the hard stone.
But instead of the routine shafting and tunnelling it must be treated by hydraulicking and washing away the thirty feet of auriferous soil, whose depth covers the reef.
These were the ever-hostile province of Denkira, auriferous Akim, Adansi, and lastly Assin, now part of our Protectorate.
Speaking of California, the learned author writes, 'In this method the force of a jet of water with great pressure is made available both for excavating and washing the auriferous earth.
There was a weary uniformity in the closed view, and the sole breaks were an occasional plantation or a few pauper huts, with auriferous swish, buried in that eternal green.
The auriferous clays of the Gold Coast are thinly covered with humus, and are not buried, as in Australia, by ten to thirty feet of unproductive top-drift.
Reaching the level, we found more 'women's washings,' and the highly auriferous ground looked as if made for the purpose of hydraulic mining.
Each hill must carry at least one core of auriferous reef.
Beyond it were native shafts striking the auriferous drift at a depth of eight to ten feet.
The spies that came out of Canaan were not, at any rate, more completely unanimous in their reports of the richness of the land than the eminent persons who have been sent to examine the auriferous lodes of our Acadian neighbors.
Nor is the surrounding mass of slate in which this vein is inclosed without abundant evidences of a highly auriferous character.
This peculiar mineral has always proved highly auriferous in this locality, and a careful search will rarely fail to detect "sights" of the precious metal imbedded in its folds, or lying hidden between its crystalline plates.
The actual ground prospected and ascertained to be highly auriferousextends to three hundred and fifty miles from the mouth of Fraser River.
About five miles to the north-east of the Kokriega is a spot where the schist rock crops out from under the sandstone, and the rises here have somewhat of an auriferous character.
After crossing the creek, we took a due north course over very rugged quartz ranges of an auriferous character.
Footnote 2: Machines in which diggers wash the gold from the auriferous soil.
This lay at the side of the dish, and beneath it all the gold which the tubful of auriferous soil had contained must of necessity have been collected.
We have as yet no certain intelligence as to the geology of the entire longitudinal auriferous valley of the Sacramento River, (where a trachytic crater, in a state of disintegration, is known as the Butt of Sacramento).
Does theauriferous quartz occur in veins, and are these still in situ, or are they broken up?
Miller Creek is about 7 miles long, and its valley is filled with vast deposits of auriferous drift.
A new stratum of auriferousearth or gravel situated in a locality where the claims are abandoned shall for this purpose be deemed a new mine, although the same locality shall have previously been worked at a different level.
Several auriferous bars have been worked here, and some shore-placers, including the rich Cassiar bar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "auriferous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
