The
aggregate of the poods is about 184,000,000 tons of '2,000 pounds
avoirdupois, and the corresponding product is valued at $221,576,472,
assuming that the weight of gold given is pure metal.
The Ural.—The
gold-fields of the Ural extend from the sixty-first parallel northward
about six hundred and ninety miles to the Arctic Ocean, and south into
the Cossack and Baskir districts. The most valuable deposits have been
found in the districts of Miask and Kashgar. At the former the largest
nuggets have been obtained, and at the latter emeralds and pink topazes
occur associated with the gold. Near Bogoslofsk is the celebrated mine
of Peschanka. The production of these districts has steadily fallen off
since i860—a fact attributable to the impoverishment of the placers,
which, nevertheless, are calculated by Bogoliubsky to represent a value
of $61,660,000.
The Ekaterinburg group occupies the central Ural. The whole eastern slope of the Ural, north and south of
