Getting Gold

“Gold is a name to charm by,” J. C. F. Johnson declares—then wonders whether Solomon’s staggering annual treasure came from mistaken weights, or arithmetic “not quite according to Cocker.”

Written in the age of expanding goldfields, this practical treatise begins with a metal mined from river sands and stubborn quartz, prized from biblical times to the latest rushes in Australia and America. Johnson draws on more than thirty years of experience to guide prospectors, miners and students through the search for gold, from alluvial deposits to reef mining. Where should a prospector look, and what knowledge turns glittering promise into payable ground?

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