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Illustrations .............................................................. 0
Letter of Tkansmittai....................................................... 8
Preface .................................................................... 9
Chaptek I. Geographical and Geological Description of the Gold Belts.......... 11
Virginia Belt .......................................................... 13
The country-rocks.................................................. 14
The quartz-veins .................................................. 14
The Eastern Carolina belt .............................................. 14
The Carolina belt ...................................................... 15
The country-rocks.................................................. 15
The gold ores....................................................... 17
Genesis of the ore-bodies............................................ 17
The age of the ore deposits.......................................... 18
The South Mountain belt .............................................. 18
The country-rocks................................ ................. 18
The quartz-veins ................................................. 19
The placer deposits ................................................ 20
Minor belts in North Carolina ..............."........................... 20
The Georgia belt ...................................................... 21
The country-rocks.................................................. 21
The ore deposits.................................................... 22
The Carolina belt in Georgia........................................ 24
Minor belts in Georgia.............................................. 24
The Alabama belt...................................................... 25
Chapter II. Historical notes ; mining, metallurgical and statistical ............ 2(5
Early discoveries of gold in the South Appalachian region ................ 20
Early mining operations................................................ 27
Early mining and metallurgical methods ......................... ...... 20
Hydraulic methods ................................................ 30
Vein mining. Free-milling ores ........................................ 83
Early milling appliances............................................ 33
Treatment of sulphuret ores ............................................ 3(5
Mechanical method ................................................ 88
Chemical treatment ................................................ 37
The chlorination process....................................... 37
The cyanide process ............................................ 88
Other chemical processes........................................ 30
Production of gold and silver in North Carolina and other Southern states . . 40
