auriferous
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Gold, of course, is the international color of bling, the Midas touch, gilded and auriferous.
From Forbes • Aug. 21, 2013
From want of rain, however, washing the auriferous earth was attended with difficulty and delay.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
The genesis of the last three types of deposit is generally assigned to the simultaneous percolation of solutions of gold and silica, the auriferous solution being formed during the disintegration of the gold-bearing metalliferous veins.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
He infers, however, that oil wells in the vicinity of auriferous deposits may yield a larger quantity of gold than from oil wells situated in carboniferous strata.
The ore at the latter place is auriferous iron pyrites, called by the natives Inga.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
