Show NO COLD 14 t T SCARCITY DEPOSITS OF PRECIOUS METAL AIL oven THE in n email small quantities it ij found in al at all volcanic rocks and will yet profitably be taken from the sea t tho the worlds eold gold simply Is absolutely inexhaustible nip matter demands are made upon it says a writer in moodys magazine magane hitherto the attention of minors miners ha lieen entirely to rely rich easily worked deposits abut it has td be re that gold in email small tieu occurs in masses of rock throughout the borr almost all volcan 11 lp ail rols s and tho the 1 derived from fron roem neni euch such as granite serpentina serpent inu and rhyolite con tain appreciable quantities of gold and vat deposits of sedimentary rocks derived from such ouch vole volcanic anle for lons contain gold in cone conce ora rated form and are today to day in some localities profitably wora d profit Is and always las ahls been the o 0 incentive to guld pm production should there thero over ever b bo need hir tor working the t vol and sedimentary rocks that iab aari ferous the meas of profitably forkl working ng them will bo be found experiments have shown that gold i ie to falling to the earth in with nith connle dust and day and bight settles suttles all over the land and seal some of this gold when concentrated orated by lod ind or water or dissolved by acid surface water waters und and roderos lied in a tarm Is recoverable recover ahle the waters of the sea also are auriferous and there can be litile doubt that it ever pier in the remote future 11 ilk there should be an P decaeny for gold means could be fouad toned for profitably reducing the gold in the seawater ae awater L tee area of the sea seabed bad Is ta much larger than stat of the land its corn com is Tol similar milar in every respect resi act with that land it Is composed ef of plains and plat plateaus caust of metamorphic and sedimentary rocks aich contain great areas of gold bearing and other ini mineral vo ns only in a fow tow instances howe however verj where the submarine gold fields are af arwe to the jand land will it be possible to j work them as the submarine coal cost 1 ields are bow worked buti but those 31 oe evanic gold fields on chica the veins eit crop ut itt the surface aro are subject to t attrition by the wave waves this tho the shedding of gold which la Is by the era son and v ached gold deposits thus thua formed in many countries and they are remark able in that they are renewed or en on rl rland bed by almost every storm that pw over them these depa deposits sIts are known by various names buethe but the term auriferous beach sand do thoin they occur la Is the he pa wile beaches broin rom alaska to terra term del fuego and throughout the coasts of 01 Aun australia and new Ze zealand alAnl where they ave long been worked with profitable IM results the gold output iron from the eold gold bear 1 luc buchea at nome name Alaska this year a expected to reach the ceist between capet capo nome and point kodney rodney for a distance of more than 1 SO 20 miles is ben worked for ROM gohl by hundreds of men the beach la Is in places auriferous tor for a width of 2000 feet teet inland from the tide level und sometimes to a depth of BO 50 feet from the base of capo cape nome there is 19 a series serles of gravelly sea beaches extending inland several miles rulles which contain gold and are in places being worked today to day these marine do dp posits osle yielded gold to the van ya ize of in 1903 ao 10 1991 and in n rods the earth haa also immello Ini monSo deposit its of auriferous sands gands and clays ther arc are chiefly in the uld regions region in m miny ny countries ther the are profitably pro mably worded by dry bilowick hut nut experiments in Atiat calla hav ha ab wa wn that much of the gold can bo be m e pitted 1 in theao cases by a special adaptation of gold goia dredging known as the pad docking process these deposits are formed by he the erosion of auriferous rock formations and the wincent ration of the gold golit byte by ui action of wind and rain |