Definition of "gold-bearing" [gold-bearing]

• Containing or producing gold (adjective)

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• "The converging sides of this "V" marked the boundaries of the gold-bearing dirt."
• "Often he ran his eye along the converging sides and on up the hill, trying to divine the apex, the point where the gold-bearing dirt must cease."
• "His first thought was that it was the dump of a mine tunnel, but remembering that he was not in gold-bearing country, he dismissed the scar from his mind and continued the circle of his survey to the southeast, where, across the waters of San Pablo Bay, he could see, sharp and distant, the twin peaks of Mount Diablo."