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Getting Gold - A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners and Students

What has been aimed at is to make "Getting Gold" a compendium, in specially concrete form, of useful information respecting the processes of winning from the soil and the after-treatment of gold and gold ores, including some original practical discoveries by the author.

Table of Contents:

Gold prospecting

Alluvial and general lode or reef prospecting

The genesiology of gold - Auriferous lodes

The genesiology of gold - Auriferous drifts

Gold extraction

New method of separating gold from impure amalgam

Gold extraction - secondary processes and lixiviation

Calcination or roasting of ores

Types of furnaces of the different classes that are in actual use

"A" or reverberatory class

"B" or the revolving cylinder furnace

"C" shaft type of furnace

Motor power and its transmission

Waterless power

Company formation and operations

Living places

A bush bed

Northern territory hammock

Purifying water

To obtain water from roots

To make an effective filter

Canvas water bags

Producing fire

To provide a simple telegraphic code

To cross a flooded stream

To make a 'slush lamp'

Mining appliances and methods

A simple way of making charcoal

Rough smelting on the mine

Misfires in blasting

To prevent loss of rich specimens in blasting

A simple mode of retorting small quantities of amalgam

To retort small quantities of mercury for amalgamating assay tests

'Scaling' copper plates

How to supply mercury to mortar boxes

How water should enter stamper boxes

Power for mills

Iron extractor

... SCREEN SHOTS...

getting gold

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