Getting Gold
Getting Gold
A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners, and Students
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ds back thirty years and he
therefore ventures to believe with some degree of confidence that
the information, original or compiled, which the book contains,
will be found both useful and profitable to those who are in any
capacity interested in the gold-mining industry.
J. C. F. J.
LONDON, November, 1896.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
GOLD is a name to charm by. It is desired by all nations, and is the one metal the supply of which never exceeds the demand. Some one has aptly said, "Gold is the most potent substance on the surface of our planet." Tom Hood sings:
Gold, gold, gold, gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold; Molten, graven, hammered, rolled, Heavy to get, and light to hold; Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled.
That this much appreciated metal is heavy to get is proved by the high value which has been placed on it from times remote to date, and that it is light to hold most of us know to our cost.
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