burnt-stuff

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

a geological term used by miners.See quotation.

1853. Mrs. Chas. Clancy, `Lady's Visit to Gold Diggings,' p. 112:

«The top, or surface soil, for which a spade or shovel is used,was of clay. This was succeeded by a strata almost as hard asiron – – technically called `burnt-stuff' – – which robbed the pickof its points nearly as soon as the blacksmith had steeled themat a charge of 2s. 6d. a point.»

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