quartz-mine

Updated: May 25, 2025

I set out a little before sunset, when the heat of the day is well over, and the evening begins to feel deliciously cool. All is quiet; there is nothing to be heard but the occasional note of the piping-crow, and the chatter of a passing flock of paroquets. As I ascend the hill, passing an abandoned quartz-mine, even these sounds are absent, and perfect stillness prevails.

Samuel Smiles - A Boy's Voyage Round the World

In a comparatively recent explosion in a quartz-mine, Shaw had been almost blown to pieces; and although he still carried in his face and body bits of the rock, and could see only through powerful glasses, he was, nevertheless, noted for his energetic zeal and indefatigable labor. The qualities which go to make a good miner are, perhaps, generally underestimated.

Lanier McKee - The Land of Nome: A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea: gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and: the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901)