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SOME OF THE COMMON AND MORE USEFUL METALS AND MINERALS. Gold is a widely distributed mineral, and is usually found in association with quartz veins of mountainous and volcanic regions, or among the washings (sand, gravel, ' river-mud) that have been derived from the destruction of the parent rock. Its more general form is that known as "native gold, " wliich is an alloy of about ninety per cent pure gold and eight or ten per cent silver; all native gold has silver with it, and in the substance ...known as electrum the quantity of the latter amounts to about twenty per cent. Common or native gold is a soft, highly ductile and malleable metal, heavy in weight (about nineteen times the weight of water), and free from tarnish; in the solid rock it occurs as strings, flakes, and crystalloids, fre- quently in association with iron pyrites, and occupying cavities in the " rotten " rock which have been left by their decomposition. In the river-washes, " placer " deposits, it is also found in flakes, grains, and scales, and at times as " nuggets " of considerable size and weight.
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