Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing gold; auriferous.
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- adjective of a mineral or ore containing or producing
gold
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective containing gold
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Examples
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Another possibility is that gold-bearing solutions may be expelled from magma as it cools, depositing lodes as they move into cooler surrounding rocks.
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Lynn Webb Gold prospector Stuart Hooper shows off a chunk of gold-bearing quartz at his backyard processing plant in the Australian town of Kalgoorlie.
Australians Catch Gold-Mining Fever David Fickling 2011
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Often he ran his eye along the converging sides and on up the hill, trying to divine the apex, the point where the gold-bearing dirt must cease.
All Gold Canon 2010
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El Dorado and the vast majority of gold-bearing systems in El Salvador are of a deposit type that is the single cleanest type of primary metal deposit on the planet low-sulfidation epithermal.
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Often he ran his eye along the converging sides and on up the hill, trying to divine the apex, the point where the gold-bearing dirt must cease.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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Located near the southern end of a 500-mile field formed 2.6 billion years ago when gold-bearing magma from deep under the earth welled up in a series of earthquakes, the region surrounding Kalgoorlie contains about 6% of all the economically recoverable gold in the world, according to Geoscience Australia, a government agency.
Australians Catch Gold-Mining Fever David Fickling 2011
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The converging sides of this "V" marked the boundaries of the gold-bearing dirt.
All Gold Canon 2010
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His first thought was that it was the dump of a mine tunnel, but remembering that he was not in gold-bearing country, he dismissed the scar from his mind and continued the circle of his survey to the southeast, where, across the waters of San Pablo Bay, he could see, sharp and distant, the twin peaks of Mount Diablo.
Chapter VIII 2010
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The converging sides of this "V" marked the boundaries of the gold-bearing dirt.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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Intensive exploration by hundreds of bore holes of the gold-bearing strata in the northern folds have led to a deep understanding of the structure of the dome.
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