sc. of gold. It is sometimes usedwith `good,' to mean plenty of gold: more usually, the `colour'means just a little gold, enough to show in the dish.
1860. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 222:
«. . . they had not, to use a current phrase, `raised thecolour.'»
1890. Rolf Boldrewood. `Miner's Right,' c. xiv. p. 149:
«This is the fifth claim he has been in since he came here,and the first in which he has seen the colour.»
1891. W. Lilley, `Wild West of Tasmania,' p. 14:
«After spending a little time there, and not finding more thana few colours of gold, he started for Mount Heemskirk.»