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... plant and produced zinc concentrate early in 1904 on an increasing scale . It owned the largest dumps along the line ... plant at Cockle Creek near Newcastle to roast and leach and electro- lyse concentrates by the novel Ashcroft process ...
... plant and produced zinc concentrate early in 1904 on an increasing scale . It owned the largest dumps along the line ... plant at Cockle Creek near Newcastle to roast and leach and electro- lyse concentrates by the novel Ashcroft process ...
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... plant at Broken Hill did not always work efficiently . In 1905 metallurgists noticed that when insufficient oil was added to the vat the granules of metal ceased to form . Instead the violent agitation created bubbles that floated the ...
... plant at Broken Hill did not always work efficiently . In 1905 metallurgists noticed that when insufficient oil was added to the vat the granules of metal ceased to form . Instead the violent agitation created bubbles that floated the ...
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... plant and roasted it in a small furnace until the surface of the particles of galena were slightly oxidized . He returned the mixture into a flotation tank ; the particles of lead stayed on the bottom of the tank and the zinc floated ...
... plant and roasted it in a small furnace until the surface of the particles of galena were slightly oxidized . He returned the mixture into a flotation tank ; the particles of lead stayed on the bottom of the tank and the zinc floated ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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