APPENDIX. 
2. Binary: Sulphids, Tellurids, Arsenids, etc. ot metals of the 
gold, iron and tin groups ; 
3. Ternary: Sulpharsenids, Sulphantimonids and Sulphobis- 
muthids ; 
III. Compounds: — the more negative element an element of the group 
consisting of chlorine, bromine, iodine, fluorine and oxygen ; 
1. Chlorids, Bromids and lodids ; 
IV. Compounds: — the more negative element fluorine; 
1. Fluorids ; 
V. Compounds: — the more negative element oxygen ; 
1. Binary: Oxides; 
2. Ternary : 1. Silicates ; 2. Columbates, Tentalates ; 3. 
Phosphates, Arsenates, Antimonates, Nitrates; 4. Borates; 
5. Tungstates, Molybdates ; 6. Sulphates, Chromates, Tel- 
1 u rates ; 7. Carbonates; 8. Oxalates. 
FI. Organic Compounds. 
I. NATIVE ELEMENTS. 
1. Gold. 
Gold occurs in numerous localities throughout the State, generally in 
quartzveins ot the gneissoid, granitic and dioritic rocks, also in those of 
the talcose, ehloritic and argillaceous slates, and > in beds of the slates them- 
selves, and in gravel deposits, the debris of the decomposed rocks and 
veins. The principal counties, in which it has been found in sufiicient 
quantity for exploitation aj’e: Franklin, Nash, Guilford, Davidson, Ran- 
dolph, Montgomery, Stanly, Union, Cabarrus, Rowan, Mecklenburg, Lin- 
coln, Gaston, Catawba, Caldwell, Burke, McDowell, Rutherford, Polk, 
Cleaveland, Cherokee, Jackson and Watauga. 
It is generally more or less alloyed with silver, varying from pure gold 
on the one side to pure silver on the other. It is associated with limonite 
and at a greater depth ot the deposits with pyrite, chalcopyrite, gal- 
•enite, zincblende, tetradymite, arsenopyrite, rarely with altaite and nagy- 
agite. Specimens of gold, remarkable for their size, have been found at 
the Reid Mine, in Cabarrus county, the Crumpp Mine and the Swift 
Island Mine in Montgomen 1 * * * * * 7 county (at the latter place in plates covered 
with octahedral crystals) at the Cansler & Sliuford Mine, in Gaston county, 
.and the Little John Mine, in Caldwell county. Very beautiful arbores- 
cent gold has been obtained from the Shemwell vein in Rutherford 
