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Advertising : 83 wordsThe Pambula Gold Field is situated 250 miles by an air line south from Sydney, and about three miles from the sea beach. The physical features of the country comprise low rolling ...
Article : 439 wordsThe next step is the precipitation of the gold. This is effected by passing the solution over zinc turnings. The zinc is not any special quality. It is prepared on the works by turning ordinary ...
Article : 123 wordsIt is estimated that the cyanide process as in use at Mount Gahan saves 75 to 80 per cent. The cost of treatment is estimated at from 6s to 6s 6d per ton. The tailings, as has before been noted, ...
Article : 152 wordsThe New Chum Mine has washed an area of ground equal to 15 or 16 acres of surface. About 3½ miles from the workings the company own a dam or reservoir, which covers 100 acres of ...
Article : 119 wordsIn a preceding article I incidentally mentioned that the alluvial formation of New Chum Hill, Kiandra, was very peculiar, and probably typical of the auriferous alluvial formation in ...
Article : 392 wordsA crushing from the Dayspring Mine, Parkes, returned, a little over 12dwt gold per ton. The reef from which the stone was taken is over 3ft wide, and is easily worked. ...
Article : 654 wordsThe Township Hill, Kiandra, is, as the name implies, the hill on which the town is built. It is a basalt-covered plateau of some extent, and is supposed to carry rich deposits of auriferous ...
Article : 243 wordsOwing to the courtesy of Mr. R. Spence, we are enabled to give accurate details of the work ing of the cyanide process at the mine. The cyanide plant now in use there, and which, it ...
Article : 133 wordsAt the Four Mile Hill, Nine Mile Hill, and Twelve Mile Hill tunnelling is also being done, with the object of working the auriferous gravels, and they are all characteristic of the deposits in ...
Article : 563 wordsThe material which is being treated consists of tailings. These have accumulated in a catchment dam, and the stuff is hauled from thence directly to the cyanide vats alongside. The hauling ...
Article : 122 wordsThe wash lies on a slate bedrock, which forms a bench on the side of the hill some hundreds of feet abov.e the present bed of the creek. In pla ces this wash dips towards the hill, and sometimes ...
Article : 358 wordsThe plant is not roofed over. Its essential parts consist of four vats, in which the solution of the gold takes place; three sumps, which are used to hold cyanide solutions, and the zinc-boxes in ...
Article : 172 wordsThe stuff is tumbled in loosely and levelled over. Then what is called the "scour wash" is run in. This consists of about a pound of lime to a ton of water, and is intended to neutralise the sulphuric ...
Article : 311 wordsIt is reported in Georgetown that an alluvial rush has taken place to a gully about three miles above Green Hills Station, on the other side of the Gilbert River. The washdirt is said to be in ...
Article : 64 wordsThere are other theories held by experienced and intelligent observers in regard to the deposition of these gravels. In "Victoria the Chil tern Valley alluvial deposits show many ...
Article : 343 wordsA new discovery of copper and silver is reported from the west branch of the Scamander. The assays are stated to be most satisfactory. Two 80-acre and one 40-acre blocks have been pegged ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 1 Feb 1896, Page 24
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