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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south arm of Kanichee Lake. Hermiston-McCauley was the subject of quartz reef mining. From 1936 to 1938, a 115.1 m (378 ft) three compartment mine shaft...

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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...

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

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...

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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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

discovered gold in quartz veins in the Lyell Creek area. The mine in this quartz reef was worked from 1872 until 1912. Gold in quartz reefs was successfully...

proclaimed in 1885. Its boundaries were proclaimed in 1891. There was quartz reef mining for gold and silver, in the mid-1880s and 1890s. carried out by the...

brother of Frederick Struben; together they managed the first gold-mining operation on the Reef. They were the sons of Johan Marinus Struben (1806 Oosterwijk...