DCHP-3

quartz gold

Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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gold found in mineralized quartz as opposed to placer or alluvial gold.

Quotations

1859
The coast was prospected for some sixty miles . . . but without success, except finding in the interior an old pick where some former explorers had been blasting for quartz gold.