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LEFT GOLD 351 GOLD COAST California it is of two different ages, but both, geologically viewed, compara- tively recent; when in veins, it is more often found in the Palaeozoic than in the Secondary or Tertiary strata. In most cases the veins are near plutonic rocks. Production. — The following table shows the production of gold in the Europe, $12,801,506; Australasia, $23,- 618,690; Africa, $193,780,666. History. — Gold is mentioned in the Bible as early as Gen. ii: 12. The He- brew word is zahab, from zahab = to shine, to be brilliant. As the names of gold in the Aryan languages (Latin aurum, Greek chrysos,) differ from this, -f-f-j I I ii ra ra //dDm^ CROSS SECTION OF CYANIDE PLANT United States and Alaska in the calendar year 1920: State or Territory- Gold Fine ounces Value Alaska , 481,984 222,965 841,638 495,810 34 34,085

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14 116,918 225,384 28,319 5 53,029 41,119 5 255.889 271 19 109,661 19

11,436 14 $9,963,500 4,609,100 17,398,200 10,249,300 700 California Colorado Georgia Idaho Illinois Maine 704,600

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Missouri 300 Montana 2,416,900 4,659,100 585 400 Nevada New Mexico North Carolina 100 1,096,200 850,000 100 5,289,700 5,600 400 Philippine Islands. . . . South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah 2,266,900 400 Vermont Virginia

Washington 236,400 300 2,918,628 $60,333,400 The value of the gold production of the world in 1920 was $365,166,077, divided as follows: North America, $91,440,724; Central and South America, $14,112,305; gold may perhaps not have been dis- covered till after the separation of the Aryan and Semitic races. Gold was first coined in England in 1257. GOLD AMALGAM, a mineral com- posed of mercury, 57.40; gold, 38.39; and silver, 5. It is found in Colombia in white grains about the size of a pea, and in California in yellowish-white, four- sided prisms. GOLDBEATER'S SKIN, the prepared peritoneal membrane of the caecum of the ox. It is used to separate the leaves of gold while under the hammer; thus it is reduced to extreme thinness, and in this state is used as an application to cuts and wounds. Its manufacture is ex- tremely offensive. GOLDBERG (gold'berg), a town of Prussian Silesia, on the Katzbach, 13 miles W. S. W. of Liegnitz. It owes both origin and name to its former rich gold mines: suffered much from Mon- gols and Hussites, the Thirty Years' War, the campaign of 1813, and finally from great fires (1863-1874) ; and now has manufactures of cloth, flannel, etc. Pop. about 7,000. GOLD COAST. See GUINEA.