Lanterna Rally

Author: Benjamin Silliman Jr

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9780266844471

Excerpt from Report on the Gold Property of the New York and Nova Scotia Gold Mining Company: With an Introduction on the General Structure and Geology of the Nova Scotia Gold Fields Over very considerable areas the glacial scouring has been so thorough, that nothing whatever is left on the rocks but the grooves and. Striae, which accompany their polish. In other cases, the glacial drift is seen composed of angular, rarely round ed, fragments of quartzite and clay slate, embedded in a tough clay, resting on the surface of the polished rocks. This detrital matter is auriferous, but the large amount of coarse, angular frag ments of rocks would render it very difficult to wash, even when it occurs in situations where water could be conveniently obtained for sluicing. The gold which it contains is coarse and angular, often still attached to the quartz, and showing but little evidence of long transportation. The Boulder Lot at Sherbrooke, has yielded a considerable amount of gold from this glacial drift, and is rewarding its owners handsomely. Probably too little attention has been given in the Province to this source of gold. The quartz veins alone having been the chief object of attention. 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.