The Production of the Precious Metals: Or, Statistical Notices of the Principal Gold and Silver Producing Regions of the World; with a Chapter Upon the Unification of Gold and Silver CoinageG.P. Putnam & son, 1869 - 376 pages |
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Page 87 - Statistical Abstract for the several Colonial and other Possessions of the United Kingdom in each year, from 1852 to 1865.
Page 293 - The reduction in value of the half-eagle would slightly exceed 17 £ cents; in the sovereign, 4 cents.) 5. The coins of each nation to continue to bear the names and emblems preferred by each, but to be legal tenders, public and private, in all.
Page 76 - Victoria is situated at the south-east of the continent of Australia, and lies between the 34th and 39th parallels of south latitude and the 141st and 150th meridians of east longitude. Its extreme length from east to west is about 490 miles, and its greatest breadth is about 300 miles.
Page 44 - WHITNEY (JP) Colorado, in the United States of America, Schedule of Ores contributed by sundry persons to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867, with some Information about the Region and its Resources. By JP WHITNEY, of Boston, Commissioner from the Territory.
Page 285 - Gallatiu each desired the same result, but the French war postponed all efforts in that direction. Mr. John Q. Adams, in his remarkable report to Congress of February 22, 1821, upon the kindred but more comprehensive subject, < the uniformity of weights and measures,' says: " 'This system approaches to the ideal perfection of uniformity applied to weights and measures, and, whether destined to succeed or doomed to fail, will shed unfading glory upon the age in which it was conceived and upon the...
Page 111 - They worked at intervals, with indifferent success, until 1859. On the 22d of February, 1858, the first quartz claim was located in the Virginia mining district, in the " Virginia Croppings," by James Finney, generally known as "Old Virginia," from whom the city of Virginia and the "croppings
Page 300 - If there be one conclusion more clear than another, deducible from all the history of mankind, it is the danger of hasty and inconsiderate legislation upon weights and measures.
Page 351 - ... coin, only the principal denominations being given. The other sizes are proportional ; and when this is not the case the deviation is stated. The third column expresses the weight of a single piece in fractions of the troy ounce, carried to the thousandth, and in a few cases to the ten thousandth of an ounce.
Page 162 - Each mining district is characterized by a peculiar system of veins ; in all as many as twenty different systems have been observed. The most abundant vein stones are quartz, either chalcedonic, crystalline, or massive ; brown spar ; heavy spar ; oxide of iron. The veins occurring in the metamorphic Triassic rocks are usually parallel with the stratification, so that they lie nearly horizontal where the formation has been but little disturbed. As to the yield of the silver ores, it varies extremely,...
Page 250 - ... circulation of their issues. ART. 12. Any other nation can join the present convention by accepting its obligations and adopting the monetary system of the Union in regard to gold and silver coins.