, MINERALOGY, 
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flate ; there are, however, feveral inftances 
that it has been found difiblved or mine- 
ralifed. 
SECT. CLXV. 
A, Native Gold, Auriim nativum^ 
Is in its metallic form commonly pure : 
And in this ftate molt part of this metal ufed 
in the world is found. With refpe6t to either 
the figure or the quantity in which it is found 
in one place, it is by miners divided into, 
1. Thin fuperficial plated or leaved gold, 
which confifls of very thin plates or leaves, 
like paper. 
2. Solid or maffive, is found in form of thick 
pieces. 
3. Criftallifed, confifts^of an angular or crif- 
talline figure. 
4. Wafh Gold, or Gold Dufi:, is wafhed out 
of fands, wherein it lies in form of Joofe 
grains and lumps *. 
^ The gold is in general more frequently imbedded and 
mixed with quartz, than with any other kmd of ftone ; and 
the quartz in which the gold is found in the Hungarian gold 
mine^ is of a peculiar appearance. All other forts of ftones, 
however, are not to be excluded, fince gold is jikewife found 
in fome of them ; for infcance, in limellone (Se6t. ix.) in 
Adolph Fredrik’s Grufva at Adelfors, in the province of Smo- 
land ; in Hornblende (Se£l. Ixxxviii.), in BaRnas Grufva at 
Riddarfnyttan, in the province of Wcllmanland ; not to men- 
tion feveral foreign gold mines. 
The greatell quantity of gold is imported into Europe from 
Chili and Peru, in America; and a little from China, and the 
coaft of Africa. The chief European gold mines are thofe of 
Hungary, and next to them thofe at Saltzburg. Befides thefe, 
there are fome others of left confequence ; among which the 
gold mines at Adelfors in Sraoland deferve to be taken much 
notice of, not only on account of the veins already worked, 
b-ut alfo in regard to the vaft trad of land, within which new 
M 4 veins 
