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Show The Fineness of Nevada Gold. Thero wore received by the San Francisco Fran-cisco mint lately several bars of remarkably re-markably fine gold. The bars came from tho camp of Goldfleld, Nevada, and wero valued at about $15,000. Tlioy wero obtained ob-tained from the treatment of about fourteen four-teen and one-half tons of ore. which gave the remarkable yield of $3000 a ton.. Tho purity of tho gold, however. Is moro noteworthy note-worthy than oven the richness of the ore. the bars assaying between 9S1 nnd 937.5 line. These bars aro said to be the purest ever received at the San Francisco mint, and It Is worthy of comment that If tho bars had been a few points finer they would havo reached tho standard of fineness fine-ness of tho United States gold coins, namely, K The gold In the bullion was valued as It stood at J20.-I1 an ounce, as against $20.67 an ounce for perfectly puro gold. |