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gold-bearing

ADJECTIVE
  1. containing gold
    auriferous quartz veins

How To Use gold-bearing In A Sentence

  • And just as the miner makes the broken-down gold-bearing stuff run through his constructed sluices, Nature sends all her gold in a torrent into the natural sluice which is known as the Fraser Canyon. A Tramp's Notebook
  • Gold-bearing rock is blown apart by high explosives and small groups of miners then move in to drill at the face.
  • The calcite acts as a mask, obscuring the gold-bearing veins from the predominate ones that contain nothing.
  • Dressed in yellow jackets, trousers and rubber boots, visitors can find excitement in spading gold-bearing sand and gravel into a metal pail.
  • The gold-bearing rock is a heavy ledge of brown, ferruginous mica-schist, which is impregnated with iron pyrites in a state of minute subdivision, and abounds in garnets. The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869. Presented to the Capitalists and People of the Central and Northern States
  • On the Witwatersrand the gold-bearing rock was discovered in outcrops on the surface, but within a few years it became clear that the deposits followed reefs deep underground sloping to the south.
  • Gold-bearing quartz and argentiferous galena [ore containing silver] have been discovered in several places.
  • On the Witwatersrand the gold-bearing rock was discovered in outcrops on the surface, but within a few years it became clear that the deposits followed reefs deep underground sloping to the south.
  • Many of the most ancient gold mines, and some of the more famous ones from modern times, were simple gold-bearing quartz - pyrite veins in faults and other fractures in rocks.
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