stamping-box

Updated: May 9, 2025

The wooden shaft has a mortice in front near the top, and a cam on a revolving horizontal shaft enters this mortice at every revolution. When the cam slips out of the mortice, the stamp falls with all its weight upon the quartz in the "battery" or "stamping-box."

John S. (John Shertzer) Hittell - Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining