What is "auriferous"

Usage examples of "auriferous".

Whitney thought the geological evidence indicated the auriferous gravels were at least Pliocene in age.

Flat, and at that time there was a car-load of auriferous gravel coming out of said Sonora Tunnel.

But modern geologists report that in the region north of Table Mountain there are four sites that are just as old as the prevolcanic auriferous gravels and contain deposits of andesite.

The auriferous gravel is hard picking, in large part it requires blasting, and even a very incompetent supervisor could not possibly be deceived in this way.

It is difficult to imagine a more satisfactory evidence than this of we occurrence of implements in the auriferous, pre-glacial, sub-basaltic gravels.

In Chapter 5, we discussed the numerous stone implements discovered in the auriferous gravels of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.

Prospectors, with tangible proof of the highly auriferous nature of the deposit.

It had been proved before him this day in Court that they had taken up, that is, occupied and worked the claim, had sunk upon and traced the auriferous drift, had taken out wash-dirt, and received and shared dividends, long before the defendants had appeared upon the scene.

The auriferous gravel, here placed, has a constant stream of water playing over it, the gold remaining in crevices specially prepared.

They swarmed over the alluvial diggings directly gold was found, monopolising the auriferous tracts.

Sonora Joe, who was one of the selected chiefs of our auriferous republic.

Chinese for the purpose of gold mining upon auriferous ground which had not been worked and abandoned by Europeans for the full term of three years.

I do observe the lower garments of your fellow-diggers, Hereward, are decidedly auriferous looking.

Ruth and the Squire by degrees pleasant homesteads and the great estates which lay outside of the auriferous region.

The auriferous tooth, the sedentary disposition, the Sunday afternoon wanderlust, the draught upon the delicatessen store for home-made comforts, the furor for department store marked-down sales, the feeling of superiority to the lady in the third-floor front who wore genuine ostrich tips and had two names over her bell, the mucilaginous hours during which she remained glued to the window sill, the vigilant avoidance of the instalment man, the tireless patronage of the acoustics of the dumb-waiter shaft - all the attributes of the Gotham flat-dweller were hers.