The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
WORLDS VAST COLD SUPPLY.
Falls from the sky and AbOunds In the
 Sea and fn ROckss

Falls from the Sky and AbOunds in the
 Sea and in Rocks
 Moody's Magazine.
 The worlds gold supply Is absolutely inexhaustible, no matter what demands are made upon it. Hitherto the atten- lion of miners has been entirely di- rected to comparatively rich. easily worked deposits. But 1t has to be re- membered that gold in small quantities occurs in. enormous masses or rocK throughout the world.
 Almost any volcanic rocks and the formations derived from them, such as granite, serpientine and rhyolite, con- tain appreciable quantities of gold and vast deposits of sedimentary rocks de- rived from such volcanic formations contain gold in concentrated form and are today in some localities prohtaoly worked.
 Profit is and always has been the inc centlve of gold production. Should there ever be need for working the volcanic and sedimentary rocks that are aurifer- ous, the means of prohtably working
 Experiments have shown that gold Is regularly falling to the earth, in asso- citation with cosmlc dust, and day ana night settles all over the land and sea. Some of this gold when concentrated by wind or water or dissolved by acid surface waters and redeposited in a more concentrated forms Is recoverable.
 The waters of the sea, also, are aurt-
 
 that If ever in the remote future there should be an extraordinary demand for gold means could be found for proht- ably reducing the gold in the sea water
 The area of the sea bed Is much lar ger than that of the land. It's compo- sitions is similar in every respect with that of the land. It is composed or mountains, plains and plateaus. of ig- neous metamorphic and sedimentary rocks which contain great areas of gold bearing and other mineral veins
 Only in d few instances, however, where the submarine gold nelds are close to the land will 1t be possible to work them as the submarine coal fields are now worked. Bat those oceanic gold fields on which the veins outer Op at the surface are subject to constant attrition by the waves. This causes the shedding of gold, which is concern trated by the sea and washed ashore.
 Gold deposits thus formed exist in many countries and they are remark able in that they are renewed or en- riched by almost every storm that passes over them. These deposits are known by various names, but the term auriferous beach sand sufficiently de- scribes them, They occur in the Pdci- ric beaches from Alaska to Terra del Fuego and throughout the coasts of Australia ana New Zealand. where they have long been worked with prof. table results.
 The gold output from the gold bear ing beaches at Nome. Alaska, this year is expected to reach S4.O0O,000 The coast between Cape Nome and Point Rodney for a distance of more thu twenty miles Is being worked for g0id by hundreds of men.
 The beach IS in places auriferous for a width of 2.000 feet inland from the tide level and sometimes to depth of fifty feet. From the western base of Cape Nome there Is a series of gravelly sea beaches extending inland several miles which contain gold anu are in places heinz worked today. These marine deposits yielded gold to the value of g., 200, 900 in 1908. $2.IS5,000 In 1904 and $2,S50.000 in 1905.
 The earth has also immense deposits of auriferous sands and clays. These are chiefly in the arid regions In many countries they are profitably worked zy dry blowing processes
 But experiments in Austraua have shown that mach of the gold can be extracted in these cases by a special adaptation of gold dredging known as the paddocking process. These rock formations and the concentration of the gold by the action of wlnd and rain.