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The fine gold-dust can, however, easily be detected by washing portions of the lode-stuff in a horn. The quartz and clay is washed away, and the gold-dust sinks to the bottom, and is retained in the horn. This is the usual way in which a lode is tested by the mining agents, and long practice has made them very expert in valuing the ore by the wash in the "spoon."
I presume, in finishing the operation, he collected the golden grains by gently lapping the water over the reduced material, much as we do now. I have already spoken of the mode in which auriferous lode-stuff was treated in early times i.e., by grinding between stones.
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