Auriferous Definition

ô-rĭfər-əs
adjective
Containing gold; gold-bearing.
American Heritage
Bearing or yielding gold.
Webster's New World

Containing or producing gold; gold-bearing.

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Origin of Auriferous

  • From Latin aurifer (“gold-bearing”) + the English suffix -ous. The Latin term in turn derived from aurum (“gold”) + ferō (“I carry”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin aurifer gold-bearing aurum gold -fer -fer

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Auriferous Sentence Examples

  • The extraction of gold from auriferous minerals by fusion, except as an incident in their treatment for other metals, is very rarely practised.

  • All these small rivers are described as auriferous and have attracted attention for this reason.

  • There are occasional bands of conglomerates, sometimes auriferous.

  • Auriferous quartz is worked by a foreign company in its neighbourhood.

  • The gold and platinum mines of Choco were on some of its affluents, and the river sands are auriferous.

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