auriferous

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Gold, of course, is the international color of bling, the Midas touch, gilded and auriferous.

From Forbes • Aug. 21, 2013

And, finally, experts declare that some of the rich banket beds of the Transvaal became auriferous by the infiltration of water containing a minute proportion of gold in solution.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert

The difference was even more marked than that between the red clay and the auriferous drift, here only four or five feet thick.

From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.

Quartz′-crush′er, -mill, a machine, mill, where auriferous quartz is reduced to powder, and the gold separated by amalgamation.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

From want of rain, however, washing the auriferous earth was attended with difficulty and delay.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various