mammillary

• Sometimes gold, evidently of reef origin, is found in the alluvial; but in that case it is generally fine as regards the size of the particles, more or less sharp-edged, or crystalline in form if recently shed; while such gold is often of poorer quality than the true alluvial which occurs in mammillary (breast-like) nuggets, and is of a higher degree of purity as gold The ordinary non-scientific digger will do well to give credence to this view of the case, and will often thereby save himself much useless trouble. —  Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
• It is always more or less mammillary, but at times, owing to causes which I have not yet quite satisfied myself upon, is decidedly dendroidal, as may be seen in one of the specimens which I have submitted to members. —  Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
• Locality near Adelaide, now showing gold freely in mammillary and dendroidal form. —  Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
• 10 Granite, with mammillary hematite -- hornstone. —  Expedition into Central Australia
• Say what one will, they are a mammillary people politically, and the strongest party in the —  Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View

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