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... metallurgy , for its ores were harder to treat than those older fields to the west and that challenge was met by metallurgists who were schooled in Welsh smelters and German academies . In Colorado's grimy smelting towns one metallurgist ...
... metallurgy , for its ores were harder to treat than those older fields to the west and that challenge was met by metallurgists who were schooled in Welsh smelters and German academies . In Colorado's grimy smelting towns one metallurgist ...
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... metallurgists . The slime absorbed tons of water , and water was precious . It also made the extraction of the particles of gold by the cyanide process too slow and expensive . John Sutherland thought about this problem . Aged twenty ...
... metallurgists . The slime absorbed tons of water , and water was precious . It also made the extraction of the particles of gold by the cyanide process too slow and expensive . John Sutherland thought about this problem . Aged twenty ...
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... metallurgists had faced grave problems . The first dilemma was the toughness of the rock which contained the minerals . The garnet was particularly hard , harder than the steel of the Cornish rolls that crushed it . If the ore was not ...
... metallurgists had faced grave problems . The first dilemma was the toughness of the rock which contained the minerals . The garnet was particularly hard , harder than the steel of the Cornish rolls that crushed it . If the ore was not ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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