Meaning of argentiferous | Babel Free

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Containing or producing silver.

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“To these [compounds] belong⟳ native gold, alloys of gold and silver, and the argentiferous gold, or auriferous silver, obtained from the assayings of auriferous minerals and ores.”

“The Kara-tau, or "Black Mountain," the last⟳ spur of the Tian-shan towards the north-west, seldom exceeds 6,500 feet in height, but is geographically of great importance, as forming the water-parting between the Sir and Chu basins. It also abounds most in coal, iron⟳, copper, and argentiferous lead⟳.”

“Where’s the argentiferous wind-jammer of Nebraska whose fervescent oratory knocked the Chicago Convention head over heels? What’s become⟳ of the tridentiferous statesman from Carolina? Can it be possible that silver is to be trodden down by the feet and claws of gold-bugs, flattened by the Kanchulla of money-devils or swallowed by the squamigerous hydra of Wall Street?”

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