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
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.
Thereafter he confined his operations to the lower half of the auriferous drift, which being gravelly, was more or less conglomerate, and formed a continuous arch corresponding with the brickwork in a railway tunnel.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.
He infers, however, that oil wells in the vicinity of auriferous deposits may yield a larger quantity of gold than from oil wells situated in carboniferous strata.
The extraction of gold from auriferous minerals by fusion, except as an incident in their treatment for other metals, is very rarely practised.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
