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Excerpt from Geological Gossip: Or Stray Chapters on Earth and Ocean Discovery of gold in California and Australia Action of water in producing gold alluvia - Three kinds of mining operations carried on in Australia Comparative poverty Of the lower part of the quartz veins - Reasons why gold-quartz mining is unusually speculative Geology Of gold mining Natural history of gold deposits - Calculation of the quantity of gold obtained in comparison with other metals, and the space it occupies - Relative value of gold, iron, and coal, and comparative estimate of the bands employed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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