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. he third belt passes 
about a mile north of Villa Rica, Carroll County, where several 
probably the belt on which a little work has recently been done 
at several points near Carrollton, while, still farther west, 
Wood’s Mine, in the edge of Alabaina, has, for about a year, 
been yielding large amounts of rich ore. Along the axis of 
this synclinal, for a width of between one and two miles, we 
find a belt of hydromica schists, with several quartz bands, 
both thick and thin, carrying considerable gold. This has 
een mined at several points; and several millions are known 
to have been coined from this immediate neighborhood, mostly 
washed from the stream rubbish and decayed outcrops, but 
partly obtained by stamping the vein-stuff. Gold-bearing 
Strata have been recognized near each of the two more northern 
belts of copper; but little work has been done upon them. 
he gold-bearing schists of Bonner’s Mine, eight miles south- 
east of Carrollton, have more of the appearance of the higher 
