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Definition of Nuggets
1. nugget [n] - See also: nugget
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuggets
Literary usage of Nuggets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 appears to be. The natural explanation of the production of gold ..."
2. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1900)
"PATRIOTIC nuggets. New York: Ford, Howard & Hul- bert. These books are attractive
and practical, and so convenient in form that they may be carried in the ..."
3. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1909)
"METALLIC DEPOSITS: Gold nuggets. Theory as to Their Formation. ... SUTTER'S nuggets:
Historical Account of Discovery of Gold in ..."
4. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales by Royal Society of New South Wales (1900)
"ON THE CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE or SOME SILVER AND COPPER nuggets. ... I mention
the difficulty of obtaining silver nuggets, because I have to trust to the one ..."
5. The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria: With Notes on the Modes by Robert Brough Smyth (1869)
"The fact that nuggets in general are almost free from impurities is, in the minds
of some, an argument against their origin in common with small particles ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1881)
"THE origin of gold both in placer deposits and in veins, and especially the origin
of nuggets, lias been the subject of repeated discussions and ..."
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