CHAPTER V

THE GENESIOLOGY OF GOLD

(AURIFEROUS DRIFTS)

Derivation and occurrence--Old diggers’ “growing” theory--Deposition experiment illustrating nature--Denudation of quartz lodes theory--Examples of its probability--Nuggets require other explanation--Deposition, most rational theory--Usual alluvial theory combated--Daintree’s and Wilkinson’s deposition experiments--Spondulix and Lothair nuggets--Newbery’s deposition experiments--Nugget form explained--Author’s experiments in manufacture of golden quartz--Extract from author’s “Deposition of Gold”--Remarkable nugget--Reason of superiority of alluvial gold pp. 48-58