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  2. Advertising

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  3. The Pambula Gold Field.

    The 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 words
  4. TREATING THE SOLUTION.

    The 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 words
  5. RESULTS.

    It 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 words
  6. THE NEW CHUM RESERVOIR.

    The 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 words
  7. The Kiandra Gold Field.

    In 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 words
  8. Intercolonial Mining News, New South Wales.

    A 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 words
  9. THE TOWNSHIP HILL COMPANY.

    The 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 words
  10. THE CYANIDE PROCESS.

    Owing 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 words
  11. OTHER CLAIMS.

    At 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 words
  12. THE STUFF TREATED.

    The 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 words
  13. THE GOLD-BEARING DEPOSIT.

    The 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 words
  14. THE PLANT.

    The 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 words
  15. THE PROCESS.

    The 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 words
  16. Queensland.

    It 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 words
  17. OTHER THEORIES.

    There 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 words
  18. Tasmania.

    A 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 ...

    Article : 47 words
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