9780217959384

Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780217959384

Paperback|9780217959384


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOLD AND GOLD-DIGGERS. EVER was the excitement connected with the discovery of any other metal so intense and so wide-spread as that relating to Gold. Let us trace some of the extraordinary phases of this excitement, and then glance rapidly at the chief commercial results of the discoveries. But before doing so, it may be well to notice the form or forms in which the metal exists in the natural state. Gold occurs sparingly in many hard rocks, such as granite, gneiss, mica-slate, chlorite-slate, clay-slate,

ISBN-13

9780217959384

ISBN-10

0217959385

Weight

1.46 Pounds

Dimensions

9.00 x 6.00 x 1.01 In

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$30.99

Format

Paperback

Pages

452 pages

Publisher

Published On

2009-09-01



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