Are there any old structures made out of stone or bricks
that look like old ovens or similar. ?
They used to roast the ore to make the quartz or similar
fracture a lot easier to extract the gold out of it.
It was also a method used to drive the arsnic sulphids as above off
before crushing. Wollumla Gold fields plus a few other area's did this
for a while back in the really early day's as an attempt to seperate
the ore.
Bloody dangerous undertaking that they did not realise back then the
implications or ignored the danger.
I got excited once around an old mine as I was finding similar
lying around.
Untill I found an old black smithy's furnace. LOL
Maybe use DIGS or Minview to find out which mine it was and then
study it's records.
that look like old ovens or similar. ?
They used to roast the ore to make the quartz or similar
fracture a lot easier to extract the gold out of it.
It was also a method used to drive the arsnic sulphids as above off
before crushing. Wollumla Gold fields plus a few other area's did this
for a while back in the really early day's as an attempt to seperate
the ore.
Bloody dangerous undertaking that they did not realise back then the
implications or ignored the danger.
I got excited once around an old mine as I was finding similar
lying around.
Untill I found an old black smithy's furnace. LOL
Maybe use DIGS or Minview to find out which mine it was and then
study it's records.
