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Page 70
The gold - mines of Santo Domingo are in veins or lodes of auriferous quartz that
run parallel to each other , and are so numerous that across a band more than a
mile in width one may be found every fifty yards . All that have been worked vary
...
The gold - mines of Santo Domingo are in veins or lodes of auriferous quartz that
run parallel to each other , and are so numerous that across a band more than a
mile in width one may be found every fifty yards . All that have been worked vary
...
Page 72
Gold is distributed in quartz veins in bands , and in patches of richer stone of
more or less extent . These richer portions of the lodes , if sunk upon
perpendicularly , will be passed through , but so also they would be if followed
horizontally , their ...
Gold is distributed in quartz veins in bands , and in patches of richer stone of
more or less extent . These richer portions of the lodes , if sunk upon
perpendicularly , will be passed through , but so also they would be if followed
horizontally , their ...
Page 77
Origin of Mineral Veins 77 plete gradation from veins of perfectly crystallised
granite , through others abounding in quartz at the expense of the other
constituents , up to veins filled with pure quartz , as at Porth Tust , near Cape
Cornwall ; and ...
Origin of Mineral Veins 77 plete gradation from veins of perfectly crystallised
granite , through others abounding in quartz at the expense of the other
constituents , up to veins filled with pure quartz , as at Porth Tust , near Cape
Cornwall ; and ...
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| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science Everyman's library. Travel and topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Science |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Contributor | Thomas Belt |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 7 jaan. 2010 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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