Gold Amalgam

( Min.) A native amalgam of gold from the platinum of Columbia and from Mariposa, Cal. It is in small white grains, easily crumbling, also in whitish 4-sided prisms. Comp. of a Columbian specimen, mercury 57-40, gold 38-39, silver 5-0. Gold Beach, in Oregon , a post-village, capital of Gurry co., on the Pacific ocean at the mouth of Rogue river. Pop . (1897) about 300. for gilding, .