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On the occurrence of native gold at Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devonshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Arthur Russell
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Some thirty-five years or so ago small quantities of free gold were found in calcite in or near a crush-breccia filling an east and west fault, in the patch of Middle Devonian limestone which forms that portion of the coast known as Daddy Hole Plain directly south-east of Torquay. The name of the actual discoverer I have been unable to ascertain, neither do any specimens appear to have been preserved ; but the late Mr. T. Harrison, the then proprietor of the Queen's Hotel, Torquay, and several other persons subscribed about s and a small amount of prospecting work was carried out, apparently with little result. The only reference to this discovery which I know of is a brief one in 'The geology of the country around Torquay' (Mere. Geol. Survey, 1903, p. 48). To Mr. B. W. Stedham of Torquay I am indebted for the additional particulars given and also for pointing out to me the exact spot, which is on the side of a fissure formed by a large pinnacle of rock standing away from the cliff below the old quarry.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 22 , Issue 126 , September 1929 , pp. 159 - 162
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1929

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References

page 159 note 1 This record has been repeated in at least one local guide-book and in W. G. Shannon's Short guide to the geology of Torquay, 1925, p. 7.