Show similarity of fores ores that tile the occurrence of ore at mercer Is 1 almost identical with that thai of at tile the asburg of 0 south africa those who havo studied tile the former r will lecog it lit in the following a writer who has made a careful italy t of the conditions that prevail in the latter the ore deposits of Johannes bule are anro described as being neither veltia nor irregular ni mosses asses but Is huge uge beds of conglomerate which can be foll followed wed with the ref of ordinary stratified rocks tills provably ably the shore deposit of an ancient sea bea consists of pebbles of quartz much crushed im bedded in a sill clous magrit maL rIT t which Is now it a hard quartzite but may have been originally a loose sand band from the iho resemblance of the he L quartz pebbles to almonds a in a cert certain a in sweetmeat the doers boers have called calle d the con erate banket a name which has haa now nour firmly rooted itself in mining phraseology it Is the matrix and not in the pebbles that the gold normally occurs the metal being sparsely distributed tri buted in a very fine state of mechanical division through the iron pyrites which Is present in the bin banket ket whilst near the outcrop of the rock where tho the pyrites has haa been decomposed ly meteoric action the disseminated gold has been set act free in a visible form the gold cold conglomerate forms forma beds or reefs with a series barlos of quart 1 velch aich seem to form one limb of 0 a flat syncline cline or trough south bouth of the rand kand tills hills from the outcrop they plunge downward in some cases rather steeply tte erly and that they steadily continue their courso course to great depth has been proved by boringer along the dip |