Definition of "auriferous" adjective comparative more auriferous , superlative most auriferous
Containing or producing gold ; gold -bearing . quotations examples
Quotations Rocks rich in gems , and mountains big with mines , / That on the high equator ridgy riſe , / Whence many a burſting ſtream auriferous plays : [...]
1727, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, pages 70–71, lines 646–648
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 .
1854, Carl Friedrich Plattner, Sheridan Muspratt, The Use of the Blowpipe in the Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of Minerals, Ores, Furnace Products, and Other Metallic Combinations