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Jrear in which any gold from these two states was 
1-eceived at the Mint. Thus nearly half of the tota 
Amount of gold coined in the year 1829 was of do- 
Jnestic production. In the year 1830, $500,000 
Worth of gold was obtained in North Carolina by 
employing a capital of $150,000. 
Previous to the year 1835, it was computed that 
the loose gold procured from washing gravel had 
Shielded more than $6,000,000 of dollars, a greal 
proportion of which, however, was worked up in 
jewellery, and not coined. These mines of Georgia 
had at that time yielded more than $500,000 ; and 
Mr. Taylor, an English practical geologist, who has 
examined the gold districts, anticipates that the 
gold deposites of the United States will soon yield 
far larger returns than those of Brazil, Columbia^ 
and the Urals united. 
GOLD-MINES OF GEORGIA. 
Gold occurs in considerable abundance among 
the beds of gravel in the primitive region of Geor- 
gia, and also in veins in the same rock formation. 
The rocks are gneiss, mica, and talcose slate, horn- 
blende and granite, and the gravel-beds, containing 
the ore which is at the bottom, are from one to four 
feet in depth. Above this gravel there is a bed of 
sand with scales of mica, varying from three ta 
twenty feet deep, on a bed of clay with angular 
fragments of quartz, from one inch to five feet deep. 
The fragments of rock forming this gravel have the 
rolled appearance, which is produced by the action 
of running water, and chemical agents, evidently 
have resulted from the disintegration of the primi- 
tive rocks in the adjacent mountains* 
The veins containing the gold traverse the ori- 
ginal strata in various directions, but generally a 
little to the east and west of north and south. The 
veins are of quartz of different characters, varying 
generally with the original rock in which it i® 
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