April 12, 2024
1898 antique GOLD MINING Australia HYDRAULIC Prospector
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1898 antique GOLD MININGAustralia HYDRAULIC Prospecting ….Terrific 1898 how-to hardcover text on gold mining, written primarily with Australian gold mining in mind -- GETTING GOLD: A PRACTICAL TREATISE FOR PROSPECTORS, MINERS, AND STUDENTS, J. C. F. Johnson. Illustrated with black and white photographs and wonderful detailed line drawings (mostly of equipment, such as the mercury extractor, leveling instruments, the puddling machine, the “Griffin” Mill, and such). Chapters include: Gold Prospecting (Alluvial and GeneralI), Lode or Reef Prospecting, The Genesiology of Gold (Auriferous Lodes), The Genesiology of Gold (Auriferous Drifts), Gold Extraction, Gold Extraction (Secondary Processes and Lixiviation), Calcination or “Roasting” of Ores, Motor Power and its Transmission, Company Formation and Operations, Rules of Thumb (includes such things as a bush bed, Territory hammock, purifying water, to obtain water from roots, producing fire…), Rules of Thumb (Mining Appliances and Methods), Selected Data for Mining Men (things like To find lost part of a vein, Hydraulics, notes on timber, to find the contents of a tank…), Australian Mining Regulations (separate sections for New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand, South Australia, Western Australia, QueenslandGETTING GOLD: A PRACTICAL TREATISE FOR PROSPECTORS, MINERS, AND STUDENTS,
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