| Show WORLD FULL OF GOLD It Fall FalU Fal From the Sky S ky and d Sloshes Up From the Sea Se Moodys Magazine The he world orld gold supply is absolutely eb abs inexhaustible no matter mier what demands are made Upon it Hitherto the Ue atten attention aten attention tion ton of or miners has hal been entirely direct directed ct ed au lo to Q el rich Y worked deposit deposits But it has hEa to be remembered Tm that tat gold Bold In small quantities occurs in lu enormous masses tr c throughout The 1 Almost Al e on id all l volcanic rocks t athe n r e for rl d from them tient er Sh i li as granite serpentine and rhyolite con contain tain tabi appreciable quantities ot of gold g ld and andt vast ast t deposits deposit bf hI sedimentary rocks de dee ived e from tram such volcanic formations contain gold gM In concentrated torm tr and andare andare andare are loday oda in tn some localities S worked Profit is ts and always has been the in incentive incentive lo to o gold kold told production n Should there ever b b be need n ed for tor working the volcanic and sedimentary rocks that are ar auriferous otis ous the means of or profitably working them th m will wm be e found Experiments have h shown that gold Is regularly r falling to the earth eaith In asso association with cosmic dust dust and and day and night settles all an over over the arid ard sea Some of ot this gold when concentrated conc con by wind and ad water ter or dissolved by b acid surface waters at n and I In a amore a amore more concentrated concentrated form ton Is recoverable The Te Th waters of ot the tea Sea ca also ls are au an auriferous and there can be little doubt that if It ever in fn the remote future there should be an extraordinary demand for gold moanS mens could be found for profit profitably profitably ably bly reducing the gold in fr tb tf seawater The Tle area area of ot the see sea se bed b d Is much muc larg larger er Cr than that C of if the land l d Its compo composition sitton slon Is similar In every eer respect r with wih that of o the land It I Is composed of or mountains plains and plateaus lateus of ot igneous metamorphic and sedimentary rocks which contain contIn great get areas area oi ot and an oth T mineral veins yells Only In a few Instances however where the submarine gold sold fields are close dose to th the land wl will It It be he possible to work them as the tho submarine s coal cl fields felds are now no worked But those oceanic gold geld gOldt fields on which the Veins nr outcrop at the surface are subject to t constant attrition by b the thc waves vac This causes CauseR the shedding h of ot gold old which Is concentrated by the sea Bra and washed ashore Gold deposits dep slI thus formed exist in inmany inmany many countries and they the ate te able able In that they are re renewed dor or en enriched riched by almost every storm stor that tat passes paSes over ever er them These deposits deposit are known by various names but the term ter auriferous beach sand nd sufficiently de describes descrIbeS scribes scrIbeS them They Tey occur in the tho Pa Pacific Pa beaches from Alaska to Terra del Fuego and throughout the coast coat of ot Australia and New Zealand where they have la e long hong been worked with profitable results The Te gold gol output from the lag ing Ing beaches at Nome ome Alaska Al ka this year Is expected to reach The roast coast st between Cape Cap Nome and Point Rodney for a a distance of bt more than twenty miles is 1 being worked for gold by hun bun hundreds draM of or men menThe menThe menThe The beach bea h is In places pl es auriferous for fora rora a width of 2000 O feet inland from the tide level and sometimes to a depth of ot fifty feet feet From the western wester base of Caps Nome Nom there them Is a series or of gravelly sea roe cb beaches baches aches extending inland Inland several sev ral miles which contain gold and are re In places being worked work today toa These ma marine marine matine rine tine deposits yielded ld d gold to the th value of ot OO In 1903 2185 K In 1904 19 and andi i In 1903 1905 I The earth erh has ha aIM mEse deposits of ot auriferous sands and arid clays These are chiefly in the arid rd regions regon In many countries they the are profitably worked by dry dr blowing processes But experiments exp In Australia have hown that much of oC the gold can be ex ox extracted In itt these thel cases caes by a special adaptation of gold dredging known as a the process s These T lo deposits are formed by the erosion ero lon of ot auriferous rock formations and the concentration of rain rin the gold by the action acton of ot wind and andrain ad adrin andrain |
