natural deposit

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This production, it is now well understood, is no longer carried on most advantageously in the neighborhood of any one great natural deposit of ore.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various

The sellers went during the night and secreted the gold-dust in the banks, so that it would come to light, as a natural deposit, when the earth was turned up.

From Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

No natural deposit of callaïs is known, but it is highly probable that the sources of the megalithic examples lay in France or Portugal.

From Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by Peet, T. Eric (Thomas Eric)