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- Quartz_reef_mining abstract "Primary gold typically occurs in quartz veins. The extraction of gold ore from these hard quartz veins was historically referred to as quartz reef mining.A Prussian engineer, Jacob Brache was the first to think that quartz reefs might have even more gold than alluvial fields.The new mining companies had to sink very deep mine shafts to get quartz from the reefs deep underground. Horizontal tunnels called drifts were dug out from the shaft at different levels to find the gold-bearing rock.All rock dug out had to be hoisted to the surface. So did lots of water and even the workers at the end of the day. Big hoisting engines were installed to hoist lifts and buckets up the shafts.On the surface above the shaft stands a building known as the headframe. This contained a wheel called a gin wheel which lifted buckets of rock up to a raised platform called a Brace. Wheeled buckets then carried the rock along elevated tracks to waste dumps or processing works. The steel cable that hoisted the bucket passed over the gin wheel.The gold was brought to the surface as small particles embedded in lumps of quartz. The quartz was then crushed into a fine dust by stamping batteries in a stamp mill. A stamp battery contained a row of stamps. On the bottom of each stamp was a heavy piece of iron steel. Each battery was driven by a cam shaft which was turned by a water wheel. The steel shoes went up and down between wooden guides and pounded the quartz which had been fed into steel boxes underneath the stampers. Ideally the stamping batteries would work 24 hours a day.After crushing, the quartz dust was mixed with water to make sloppy mud which then ran down sloping tables, called concentrating tables. On top of these tables were copper sheets coated with mercury, which attracts gold. The gold particles stuck to the mercury, and could be collected from there.".
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- Quartz_reef_mining subject Category:Gold_mining.
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- Quartz_reef_mining comment "Primary gold typically occurs in quartz veins. The extraction of gold ore from these hard quartz veins was historically referred to as quartz reef mining.A Prussian engineer, Jacob Brache was the first to think that quartz reefs might have even more gold than alluvial fields.The new mining companies had to sink very deep mine shafts to get quartz from the reefs deep underground.".
- Quartz_reef_mining label "Quartz reef mining".
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