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What does auriferous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Containing or producing gold; gold-bearing
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Both holes are encouraging from a structural perspective and both have returned auriferous values.
Both minerals are common in the gossans of surface enriched auriferous deposits, especially those with abundant pyrite and other sulfides.
These results also confirm the particularly high grade nature of the auriferous mineralization at depth.
Various slightly auriferous minerals such as pyrite and other sulphides in graphitic schists and other rocks.
Numerous geological series of auriferous and diamantiferous areas would also be worth studying in detail.
The ores are argentiferous and auriferous, but very slightly so, especially as to the gold.

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