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Definition of Gold dust
1. Noun. The particles and flakes (and sometimes small nuggets) of gold obtained in placer mining.
Definition of Gold dust
1. Noun. Gold in the form of very small pieces, or flour gold. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) Anything of great value. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gold Dust
Literary usage of Gold dust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"THE END OF THE "gold dust." FOR, three months later, August 8, while I was writing
one of these foregoing chapters, the New York papers brought this ..."
2. Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the by United States Dept. of the Treasury, Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1872)
"The origin of gold nuggets and gold dust is not so simple or clear as at first
sight it ... The natural explanation of the production of gold dust is, ..."
3. Mining in the Pacific States of North America by John Shertzer Hittell (1862)
"The gold dust, as obtained from the placers, is usually sold by the miners to
... gold dust Trade in California. § 182. At San Francisco, the dust is sent ..."
4. A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1854)
"... similar to those containing the gold dust brought by the conquered nations 161.
Bags, generally containing gold tributary to the Egyptians, which dust, ..."
5. The Mining Magazine (1853)
"An elaborate table has been compiled by Adams & Co., of New York and San Francisco,
showing the amount of gold dust and coin manifested from San Francisco ..."
6. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"The great increase of imports and the scarcity of coin for the payment of duties,
while gold-dust was abundant and had a fixed merchantable value recognized ..."
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