Meanings
adjectivenon-auriferous (not comparable)
- not comparableNot gold-bearing.
The geologists to the expedition, however, so far as I am aware, report the country as being distinctly unpromising and definitely non-auriferous.
1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 231
Origin
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