Author: Walter H. Gardner Publisher: ISBN: 9781332236732 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 204
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Excerpt from Drilling for Placer Gold The Keystone Drill, as universally used, is not an instrument of precision. Gold particles are not distributed with mathematical symmetry. One drill hole to an acre in ground that is 50 feet in depth only yields for examination part of the whole! Ordinary common sense and care on the part of the operator and panner are sufficient to insure acceptable field work. Meticulous precision or elaborate core measurements are generally absurd. For after the depths have been recorded and the gold weighed, there comes the calculation of the values of precious metal in great blocks of gravel. There is no fixed formula. The experienced Engineer, to whom such work should be entrusted, will compensate for high variations, for loose and swelling ground, for sand and clay, for rusty gold - and his calculations will of necessity contain approximations that eclipse minor errors of the field and nullify minute measurements. Indeed, field work with the Keystone Drill need not be conducted by men of profound skill. Just so the work is done in a consistent manner under the occasional eye of a competent engineer; just so the results are interpreted in the light of experience - then will the final figures carry the full weight of authority. There is no mystery about field work - and should there be, the following pages will clarify the mode of procedure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Walter H. Gardner Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781016847582 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 0
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Author: John C. Yannopoulos Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1468484257 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 285
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The history of gold begins in antiquity. Bits of gold were found in Spanish caves that were used by Paleolithic people around 40,000 B.C. Gold is the "child of Zeus," wrote the Greek poet Pindar. The Romans called the yellow metal aurum ("shining dawn"). Gold is the first element and first metal mentioned in the Bible, where it appears in more than 400 references. This book provides the most thorough and up-to-date information available on the extraction of gold from its ores, starting with the miner alogy of gold ores and ending with details of refining. Each chapter con cludes with a list of references including full publication information for all works cited. Sources preceded by an asterisk (*) are especially recom mended for more in-depth study. Nine appendices, helpful to both students and operators, complement the text. I have made every attempt to keep abreast of recent technical literature on the extraction of gold. Original publications through the spring of 1989 have been reviewed and cited where appropriate. This book is intended as a reference for operators, managers, and designers of gold mills and for professional prospectors. It is also designed as a textbook for extractive metallurgy courses. I am indebted to the Library of Engineering Societies in New York, which was the main source of the references in the book. The assistance of my son, Panos, in typing the manuscript is gratefully acknowledged.
Author: Roger Marjoribanks Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401158223 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 123
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This book is written as a practical field manual to effective. Each geolOgist has to develop his/her be used by geologists engaged in mineral explo own techniques and will ultimately be judged on ration. It is also hoped that it will serve as a text results, not the process by which these results and reference for students in Applied Geology were reached. In mineral exploration, the only courses of universities and colleges. The book 'right' way of doing anything is the way that aims to outline some of the practical skills that locates ore in the quickest and most cost-effective turn the graduate geologist into an explo manner. It is preferable, however, for an individ rationist:. It is intended as a practical 'how to' ual to develop his/her own method of operation book, rather than as a text on geological or ore after having tried, and become aware of, those deposit theory. procedures which experience has shown to work An explorationist is a professional who search well and which are generally accepted in indus try as good exploration practice. es for ore bodies in a scientific and structured way. Although an awkward and artificial term, The chapters of the book approximately fol this is the only available word to describe the low the steps which a typical exploration pro totality of the skills which are needed to locate gramme would go through. In Chapter 1, the and define economic mineralization.
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