. Geological magazine. West, Ne-wman imp. Tnlobites from Havepfopdwest. A. J. R. Atkin—Gold on Lightning Creek, 105 places the gold was so plentiful that the writer has picked up15 ounces in a few minutes from the crevices in the broken reason for this striking richness was shown in the patchoccupying a pool at the foot of a fall in the old stream. All the gold was very water-worn and large, the smallest piecebeing about 10 grains in weight, and was in the crevices of the rock,together with hydrated oxide of iron, which was doubtless the pyritesof t
. Geological magazine. West, Ne-wman imp. Tnlobites from Havepfopdwest. A. J. R. Atkin—Gold on Lightning Creek, 105 places the gold was so plentiful that the writer has picked up15 ounces in a few minutes from the crevices in the broken reason for this striking richness was shown in the patchoccupying a pool at the foot of a fall in the old stream. All the gold was very water-worn and large, the smallest piecebeing about 10 grains in weight, and was in the crevices of the rock,together with hydrated oxide of iron, which was doubtless the pyritesof that age. The benches known as Butcher Bench and Dunbar Flat were thesame stream of a still earlier date, and produced several of the. largest pieces of gold found in the country. Some of the nuggetsweighed over 30 ounces, but contained a little quartz and wererougher in appearance than those found in the deeper channels. Itwas the erosion of this channel that enriched the Point Bench andthe deeper ground to the left. Most of the quartz probably gotwashed out of and separated from the rest of the gold on its traveldown to the deeper levels. The most interesting of all the channels of this valley is theoldest or Devils Lake channel. Emptying as it did into the valleyof Slough Creek, it represents a period when the drainage was very 106 A. J. E. Atkin—Gold on Lightning Creek, much higher than at present, and may possibly be as old as is the only channel so far discovered in the country of this period,and I have no hesitation in attributing the gold deposits of LightningCreek to the erosion of this old channel, which also produced therich benches along Slough Creek (see locality plan) when thewatershed
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