quartz-reef

He had thrown up his occupation and sunk his last dollar in the venture, and the finding of the quartz-reef would, he commenced to realize, open up to him alluring possibilities.

The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905

He had more than once during the last few weeks doubted that Grenfell had ever found the quartz-reef at all, for it seemed quite possible that he had, as the track-grader suggested, merely fancied that he had done so, and the man's manner had borne out that supposition.

The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905

Now, quartz-reef mining is proverbially uncertain.

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

For a few yards your quartz-reef may be extremely rich, and thereafter the so-called "shoot" may stop, and the vein contain so little gold as not to pay the cost of working.

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

The strike ran parallel with the quartz-reef, north 5º east (true).

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

It shows a fine quartz-reef, striking north fourteen degrees east.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

Near its head we shall find knots of ruins, and the quartz-reef

The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

They chose a pear-shaped quartz-reef; the upper dome exposed, the converging slopes set and hidden in green trap to the east and west, and the invisible stalk extending downwards, probably deep into Earth's bowels.

The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

To the east of the water there is a second quartz-reef, running parallel with the upper ridge, and apparently untouched by the pick.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

Near its head we shall find knots of ruins, and the quartz-reef Abá‘l-Marú; while lower down the bed, on the north-east side of a hill facing the valley, Lieutenant Yusuf came upon a rock scrawled over with religious formulæ, Tawakkaltu

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