Silver and Gold: An Account of the Mining and Metallurgical Industry of the United States, with Reference Chiefly to the Precious MetalsJ. B. Ford, 1873 - 566 pages |
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Page 129
... amalgam produced comes from the copper plates of the aprons and tables , only a small portion being found in the amalgamators . Leaving these , the pulp passes on to concentrating - ties or sluices , in which the sulphurets are saved or ...
... amalgam produced comes from the copper plates of the aprons and tables , only a small portion being found in the amalgamators . Leaving these , the pulp passes on to concentrating - ties or sluices , in which the sulphurets are saved or ...
Page 192
... amalgam through a siphon . The settlers have each four plugs placed respectively 6 , 12 , 17 , and 22 inches from the top . The lowest plug is only removed during the clean - up . Five and a half feet lower are the agitators , one to ...
... amalgam through a siphon . The settlers have each four plugs placed respectively 6 , 12 , 17 , and 22 inches from the top . The lowest plug is only removed during the clean - up . Five and a half feet lower are the agitators , one to ...
Page 193
... amalgam and quicksilver remain undischarged in the pan . ) The muller is then let down and left to grind for four and a half hours , then 250 pounds of quicksilver are added , and the grinding is continued for one hour . The muller is ...
... amalgam and quicksilver remain undischarged in the pan . ) The muller is then let down and left to grind for four and a half hours , then 250 pounds of quicksilver are added , and the grinding is continued for one hour . The muller is ...
Page 194
... amalgam is strained as dry as possible . When 1,000 to 1,200 pounds of amalgam have accumulated , it is retorted and melted in the usual manner . Sampling . Every half hour the sampler goes around the battery , catching some of the pulp ...
... amalgam is strained as dry as possible . When 1,000 to 1,200 pounds of amalgam have accumulated , it is retorted and melted in the usual manner . Sampling . Every half hour the sampler goes around the battery , catching some of the pulp ...
Page 364
... amalgam is retorted . The main building is 30 by 50 , contains one of Howland's 10 - stamp rotary batteries , two of Wheeler & Randall's amalgamating - pans , ( all cast iron , ) settler , and retorts . The furnace - building will be 35 ...
... amalgam is retorted . The main building is 30 by 50 , contains one of Howland's 10 - stamp rotary batteries , two of Wheeler & Randall's amalgamating - pans , ( all cast iron , ) settler , and retorts . The furnace - building will be 35 ...
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Page 455 - ... upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 454 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render such limitation necessary.
Page 454 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 456 - That where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim...
Page 456 - States surveyor general that five hundred dollars' worth of labor has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors; that the plat is correct, with such further description by such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an accurate description to be incorporated in (Jie patent.
Page 456 - If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the register and the receiver of the proper land office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent...
Page 456 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent; upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 458 - ... the applicants, and they shall be at liberty to obtain the same at the most reasonable rates, and they shall also be at liberty to employ any United States Deputy Surveyor to make the survey. The Commissioner of the General Land-office shall also have power to establish the maximum charges for surveys and publication of notices under this Act; and in case of excessive...
Page 455 - All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim.
Page 455 - But their right of possession to such outside parts of such veins or ledges shall be confined to such portions thereof as lie between vertical planes drawn downward as above described, through the end lines of their locations, so continued in their own direction that such planes will intersect such exterior parts of such veins or ledges.