Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 6, 2025
Some of them were still being worked after the mode followed at Lóngos, but with a few slight improvements. The pits are twice as large as those excavated there, and the rock is lifted, up by a pulley to a cylindrical framework of bamboo, which is worked by the feet of a lad who sits on a bank higher up. There is a stream-work over one hundred feet in length.
The first breaking-up of the ore was done in the stream-work itself, and the dead heaps lay piled up on the ground, so that, in subsequent fires, the flame of the pieces of wood always reached the summit; and by reason of the quality of the rock, and the imperfection of the mode of procedure, very considerable down-falls frequently occurred.
He never done no wrong not what you might call wrong: or so he maintained, an' 'twasn't for me to disbelieve 'en. Was it, now?" "You'll tell us about it, Jan dear?" coaxed Annet. "There's no particular story in it." "What is a stream-work?" asked Matthew Henry. "A stream-work is a moor beside a river, where the mud is full of ore, washed down from the country above sometimes from the old mines.
Further to the south-west from here, on the mountain Malaguit, are seen the ruins of a Spanish mining company; a heap of rubbish, a pit fifty feet deep, a large house fallen to ruin, and a stream-work four feet broad and six feet high.
The mountain consists of gneiss much decomposed, with quartz veins in the stream-work, with the exception of the bands of quartz, which are of almost pure clay earth with sand. These, which are of much less value than the latter, are only occasionally collected by the Chinese dealers, who reckon them nominally at five cents each.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking