Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men

What prospector has not at times been troubled for the want of a forge? To steel or harden a pick, or sharpen a drill is comparatively easy, but there is often a difficulty in g...

We now come to a highly important part of our subject, the practical treatment of ores and matrixes for the extraction of the metals contained. The methods employed are multitud...

“No more enduring Memorial of Professor Rankine could be devised than the publication of these papers in an accessible form.... The Collection is most valuable on account of the...

All the world over, the operation of winning from the soil and rendering marketable the many valuable ores and mine products which abound is daily becoming more and more a scien...

Up to a comparatively recent time it was considered heretical for any one to advance the theory that gold had been deposited where found by any other agency than that of fire. A...

As has already been stated, the likeliest localities for the occurrence of metalliferous deposits are at or near the junction of the older sedimentary formations with the igneou...

Before any plan is adopted for treating the ore in a new mine the management should very seriously and carefully consider the whole circumstances of the case, taking into accoun...

Having considered the origin of auriferous lodes, and the mode by which in all probability the gold was conveyed to them and deposited as a metal, it is necessary also to inquir...

Gold is a name to charm by. It is desired by all nations, and is the one metal the supply of which never exceeds the demand. Some one has aptly said, “Gold is the most potent su...

This chapter has been headed as above because a number of the rules and recipes given are simply practical expedients, not too closely scientific. My endeavour has been to suppl...

The object of calcining or roasting certain ores before treatment is to dissipate the sulphur or sulphides of arsenic, antimony, lead, &c., which are inimical to treatment, whet...

It is well known that much disappointment and loss accrue through lack of knowledge by prospectors, who with all their enterprise and energy are often very ignorant, not only of...

It is unnecessary to describe the methods by which power for mining purposes has been obtained--that is, up to within the last five years--beyond a general statement, that when...

=Contents.=--Section I.--The Mechanism of the Petrol Car.--The Engine.--The Engine Accessories.--Electrical Ignition and Accessories.--Multiple Cylinder Engines.--The Petrol.--T...

“Mr. Hurst’s VALVES and VALVE-GEARING will prove a very valuable aid, and tend to the production of Engines of SCIENTIFIC DESIGN and ECONOMICAL working.... Will be largely sough...

A temporary forge--Making charcoal--Rough smelting on the mine--Misfires in blasting--To prevent loss of rich specimens in blasting--Simple retorting of small quantities of amal...

Likeliest localities for reefs--Similarity of indications of minerals--Where first prospecting is done--A practical example--Ironstone “blows”--Their true origin--Igneous theory...

Division of methods of treating ores--Scientific extraction indispensable--Superficial knowledge--German and Australian methods compared--Schools of Mines--Antiquity of gold wor...

Igneous theory formerly strongly upheld--Quotation from Rosales--His arguments combated--Hydro-thermal action--Its evidences in New Zealand--Professor Lobley’s theory--Author’s...

Gold--Poetical and historical references--Its wide distribution--Remains of ancient works--Old appliances--Modern appliances anticipated--Labours of alchemists--Deposition simil...

Ignorance of prospectors--Chapter specially addressed to the inexperienced--Valuable finds mostly accidents--Best way to obtain elementary knowledge--An assaying experience--Wha...

Derivation and occurrence--Old diggers’ “growing” theory--Deposition experiment illustrating nature--Denudation of quartz lodes theory--Examples of its probability--Nuggets requ...

Mining becoming a scientific business--Initial mistakes in public companies--Self-styled mining experts--How articles of association are compiled--How directors and officials ar...

Choosing the plant---Various ores and their constituents--Amalgamation--Various concentrators--Percussion tables--Frue vanner--Pan concentration--Simultaneous grinding and amalg...

Living places--A bush bed--Northern Territory hammock--Purifying water--To obtain water from roots--An effective filter--Canvas water-bag--Medicine case--Producing fire--To copy...