Victoria, As I Found It, During Five Years of Adventure, in Melbourne, On ...
Victoria, As I Found It, During Five Years of Adventure, in Melbourne, On ...
Henry Brown (Of Victoria.)
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When used, about twenty or thirty pounds of quicksilver is put into the deep end of each compartment, and a sharp backward and for- Digitized by VjOOQIC 280 VICTORIA, ward movement is given to each table, by means of an eccentric. The quartz, mingled with water, falls from the shoot of the crush- ing machine, into the deep concave portion of the Califomian table, and by the backward and forward movement, the quicksilver rolls over and over the quartz and gold, and as the table becomes fall, the... light quartz is gradually car- ried along till it roUs over the first division of the table, leaving the gold which has been seized hold of by the quicksilver behind ; the same process is repeated in the forward division of the table, and then the quartz falls over in- to tjie second table, where the process is again repeated. When all the quartz is crushed, the next proceeding is to clear out these tables, and to wash away, in a cradle, as much as possible of the quartz that still remains in them, and afterwards to pan off the residue, this last part requires a practised hand, for a great quantity of what the miners call mundic remains behind; it is small but heavy, and Digitized by VjOOQIC AS I FOUND IT.
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