United States or Liberia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I do not doubt these pebbles were in a similar manner aggregated, at a period when the great calcareous formation was depositing beneath the surrounding sea. We may believe that the jagged and battered forms of the hard quartz yet show the effects of the waves of an open ocean. I was, on the whole, disappointed with this ascent.
It is, that though the predominant felspar in them is always of the basic type, yet they not unfrequently contain free quartz, sometimes in very large proportion.
Meadows dug into a deep pocket, and chased into a corner, and caught, and produced a little nugget of quartz and gold worth about four pounds, also another of somewhat less value. "They don't look handsome, gents," said he, "but you may see the stuff glitter here and there; and here is some of the dust. I had to buy this; gave them fifty shillings an ounce for it.
The sounds cease, and they all stand motionless and apparently silent, facing to the east. "What does it mean?" "They are waiting for the sun to appear. These people worship him." The hunters, interested and curious, strain their eyes, watching the ceremony. The topmost pinnacle of the quartz mountain is on fire. It is the first flash of the sun! The peak is yellowing downward.
The Pleasant Creek News writes: "A singular and unaccountable feature in connection with our deep quartz mines is being developed daily, which must surprise those well experienced in mining matters. It is the decrease of water as the greater depths are reached.
There are also numerous included crystals. The rock has been greatly crushed and sheared, and is much finer than No. 4. 6 Cap of Caribou Ridge. A hard compact rock of dark green color, having a mottled appearance, due to the presence of a white mineral. Pyroxene, quartz and augite form the groundmass, as seen in section. There are a few small grains of magnetite,
Yet, from the other viewpoint, I had only descended perhaps an eighth, or a quarter of an inch, beneath the broken pitted surface of a little fragment of golden quartz the size of a walnut into just one of its myriads of golden atoms! "My world," Glora was saying. "You like it? See the starlight on the lake? I have heard that your world looks like this at night, in summer.
Tin is also found, as at Eurieowie, in dykes, composed of quartz crystals and large scales of white mica, traversing the older slates. A similar occurrence takes place at Mount Shoobridge and at Bynoe Harbour, in the Northern Territory of South Australia; indeed, one could not readily separate the stone from these three places if it were mixed.
And he always spoke of the strange sagacity of that cat with the air of a man who believed in his secret heart that there was something human about it maybe even supernatural. I heard him talking about this animal once. He said: "Gentlemen, I used to have a cat here, by the name of Tom Quartz, which you'd 'a' took an interest in, I reckon , most anybody would.
Nobody could have been more a part of the Barnriff community than Peter Blunt, and yet nobody could have been more apart from it. Peter did not even look up from his labors when his visitor flung himself into the vacant chair. He silently went on with his examination of first one fragment of quartz and then another. And the man in the chair watched him with moody, introspective eyes.
Word Of The Day