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GOLD VEIN [1 record]

Record 1 2006-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gold and Silver Mining
CONT

There would appear to be no actual limit to the variety of forms exhibited by auriferous veins of quartz ...

CONT

Veins of pure scaly oxide of iron ... are likewise regarded by the native miners as ... indications of the proximity of gold. Some of these auriferous veins attain the breadth of several yards ...

PHR

Gold-bearing quartz vein.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines d'or et d'argent
CONT

Associés à des roches vertes [...], il existe en Australie des filons aurifères. À l'or s'associent du cuivre et du nickel [...]

CONT

[...] la mine «Morning Star» (Victoria, Australie [...] où des veines aurifères se localisent dans un dyke monzonitique [...]

PHR

Filon de quartz aurifère.

PHR

Veine de quartz aurifère.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Minas de oro y de plata
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