GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA AND AMERICA. b\b 



In many mines, where labour, &c., is cheap, and the 

 quantity of ore great, a few pennyweights of gold to the 

 ton will pay to extract, and even in a mine where the ore 

 yields averagely nearly 1 J oz. per ton, the amount of gold 

 in bulk is very small compared to that of quartz (say equal 

 to 5 sovereigns in 14 or 15 cubic feet of quartz). Thus it 

 really matters little whether the specks of gold are visible 

 to the naked eye or distributed in a very finely divided 

 state throughout the mass, so long as it is recoverable by 

 some of the many methods now in use, and of course likely 

 to be improved upon in the future. 



