gold-containing

Updated: August 14, 2026

Another half-hour brought us to about a dozen native shafts in the usual chimney shape. They were quite new and had been temporarily left on account of the rise of the water, which was here twenty-four feet below the surface. The top soil is of sandy clay, and the gold-containing drifts, varying in thickness, they told me, from two to four feet, consisted of quartz pebbles bedded in red loam.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II: A Personal Narrative