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NEW SOUTH WALES

ORIGIN OF GOLD

"The following is the generally received theory as to the origin of gold and other metals -
the whole surface or crust of the earth is in a condition of crystallisation, proving that previous to its present solidity, it must have been in a free or liquid state.
It was at this liquid & gaseous period that all the substances, from the most dense to the lightest arranged themselves in Vast parallel layers or strata according to their specific gravities. When the cooling process had sufficiently advanced, the hard crust was broken up by the shrinking or Contraction of the interior; mountains were formed & all the irregularities of violent disruption took place. Coeval with this shrinking, fissures or huge cracks were made; from this source alone have metals, been brought to the surface.
The amount of the precious, or any of the metals, is most insignificant to the vast beds which exist in the interior.
In some places the liquid quartz, containing the
gold ran over the mountain sides. From the disentegration [disintegration]  or decomposition of this quartz, by the action of water & the atmosphere, the gold has been liberated, forming our surface mines or gold fields - The uncertainty
Connected with quartz mining arises from the vein or fissure not being of uniform depth, only those portions which have extended to the great gold strata Containing the metal."

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