23 Gold Diggers Guide 1864

MINING FOR GOLD. 11
open in its cleavage. The Famine resembles generally
the Touffe de Pins ; but about a mile and a half
aboye the falls, that is about five miles from its mouth,
there commences an extensive deposit of clay, sand
and gravel. Where gold has been most extensively
Avorked in the Dd Loup, that is at its mouth, the
deposit is composed of loose gravel, averaging not
above two feet in thickness."
In the explorations for copper mines during the
last fall, it is said that gold has been discovered in
many localities in the eastern townships ; but as there
may be but little truth in any of these reports, perhaps
it is as well not to mention the places named.
Mining for
Gold.
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Gold is very often found on the surface, in a mixture
of sand, quartz, iron-stone, slate pebbles, and
other stones ; sometimes precious stones are found in
this kind of aurfaco earth.
Where water can be obtained from 40 to 50 feet
above your " surface," and you have a good outlet
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