Quartz reef mining is a type of gold mining in "reefs" (veins) of quartz. Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the Earth's crust, and most quartz...

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1897. Gold in California Gold mining in Alaska British Columbia gold rushes Gold prospecting Quartz reef mining "Placer mining (US)". American English Dictionary...

Merensky melanorite and is a fine-grained chalcopyrite, quartz and feldspar rich matrix. The Merensky Reef has a high concentration of chromitites. However,...

which are used. Historically, hand-mining of gold ores permitted the miners to pick out the lode quartz or reef quartz, allowing the highest-grade portions...

Swifte—died in early-1876. A quartz-reef rich in gold was discovered on land adjacent to the company's lease in mid-1877 and gold mining interests became interested...

the project did not proceed. Hoist (mining) Mineral processing Shaft mining Quartz reef mining Underground mining "WELLINGTON". Bathurst Free Press (NSW :...

Dalmorton in 1871. The gold was found in quartz reefs and reef mining dominated the field. Initially, several gold reefs were worked, providing work for 600...

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of alluvial mining at Bendigo was short-lived, from 1862 to 1866. Prospectors were driven to the source of the gold bound in quartz reefs in the nearby...

invested in such mining ventures. He was for example on the board of directors of several companies which carried out quartz reef mining at Macetown in...

Seams (or reefs) of gold-bearing quartz had been found within the formation which consisted of layers of slate and sandstone. Quartz reef mining was carried...

small-scale mining (ASM) is a blanket term for a type of subsistence mining involving a miner who may or may not be officially employed by a mining company...

Confidence Reef is a historical gold-bearing quartz vein situated within the Kloofendal Nature Reserve, in close proximity to Roodepoort, South Africa...

coastal settings is silica (silicon dioxide, or SiO2), usually in the form of quartz. Calcium carbonate is the second most common type of sand. One such example...

fluorite, quartz, and adularia. Uranium minerals were noted by 1881 in the silver mines at the Silver Reef/Harrisburg district, at Silver Reef, Washington...

forestry, water supply, and in the areas outside the granite sands - Quartz reef mining and related industries. The region is zoned (2010 map) for timber...

of the Bethanga goldfields began with the discovery of a gold-bearing quartz reef on New Years Day 1876. The 'Gift' mine site is located south east of...

early 1860s. The alluvial gold was exhausted by then and a shift to quartz reef mining began. This continued on and off into the 1930s, though by the 1920s...

Henry Lewis finding quartz and gold vein on a farm, that led to the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in 1886. These discoveries led to many mining operations and after...

southern side is mostly provided by the Beartooth Mountains. The region had a quartz monzonite intrusion and underwent extensive metamorphism, faulting and folding...

reef mining in Australia, over fifteen years before the reef mining boom of the 1870s. The Quartz Roasting Pits Complex is one of the oldest goldrush sites...

Turon River. When the alluvial gold ran out, activity switched to quartz reef mining. The town was a centre of opposition to the gold licensing system...

Quartz reef mining. Belleville was eventually abandoned. The gold rush in Holcomb Valley lasted about 10 years, from 1860 to 1870. Hard rock mining continued...

servicing the surrounding goldfield. The focus of gold mining moved south to the rich quartz reef mines of Hawkin's Hill at Hill End, beginning the decline...

arrived in the colony in 1855 and achieved some success in quartz reef mining at Eureka Reef. He then turned to quarrying at Mount Alexander, at first...

local workers in the early 20th century, there were expectations that reef mining would supersede the primitive methods of gold extraction. In 1905, several...

the land after the mine is closed. Mining materials are often obtained from ore bodies, lodes, veins, seams, reefs, or placer deposits. The exploitation...

ilmenite, iron ore, kaolin, kyanite, lignite, limestone, manganese, monazite, quartz, rutile, salt, tin, and uranium. Of these commodities, only diamond and...