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Page 62
... ounces of silver to the ton and 3 per cent to 5 per cent copper . The remaining ore was argentiferous copper pyrites , assaying 26 per cent copper and up to 2,000 ounces of silver a ton . The entire seam averaged over a thousand ounces ...
... ounces of silver to the ton and 3 per cent to 5 per cent copper . The remaining ore was argentiferous copper pyrites , assaying 26 per cent copper and up to 2,000 ounces of silver a ton . The entire seam averaged over a thousand ounces ...
Page 63
... ounces of silver a week . In an area of ten feet square £ 18,000 worth of ore was mined in a fortnight . A quarter of a million ounces of silver came from a stope barely the size of a suburban dining room . In September 1894 , after ...
... ounces of silver a week . In an area of ten feet square £ 18,000 worth of ore was mined in a fortnight . A quarter of a million ounces of silver came from a stope barely the size of a suburban dining room . In September 1894 , after ...
Page 233
... ounces of silver and 0.15 ounces of gold to the ton . The manager , B. P. Eckberg , was strangely silent about the deleterious zinc which permeated most of his ore body . The smelting of copper ores which contained more than twenty per ...
... ounces of silver and 0.15 ounces of gold to the ton . The manager , B. P. Eckberg , was strangely silent about the deleterious zinc which permeated most of his ore body . The smelting of copper ores which contained more than twenty per ...
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